Caring for our immobilized loved ones can be a daunting task. The need to turn a loved one manually and frequently is not only difficult, but also tiring. This can lead to eventual hospitalization of the family member. Freedom medical beds have been designed to take care of such needs, leaving caregivers with enough time to take care of other chores, and give comfort to the patient.
How do Freedom medical beds work?
The bed turns the patient automatically, eliminating the need for a caregiver to get up often at night. When you have to constantly wake up to turn a patient, you are bound to suffer both mental and physical fatigue, and be deprived of the highly important quality sleep. Freedom medical beds also reduce the chance of shoulder and neck pains resulting from turning a patient manually. Freedom medical beds also allow the caregiver to adjust the legs and head of the patient for personal care, like bathing and transference to a wheelchair.
Benefits of Freedom medical beds
A Freedom bed has many features beneficial to a user, whether they are a patient or not. These include:
- The patient is able to live within a home instead of a hospital or an institution, which can result in a significant reduction in pain
- The Freedom bed is automated to allow frequent unassisted mobility. This relieves pressure that could result in uncomfortable bedsores and significantly reduces bladder urinary tract and respiratory infections developing
- The Freedom medical bed rotates, even when the torso is raised up to 20°. For people who are tube fed, a maximum angle of 30° can be achieved with or without the help of a pillow
- Bowel movement is improved and it reduces gastro-esophageal reflux
- Because it does not create heat, electrolyte and dehydration imbalance are reduced significantly and sleep is improved
Monetary benefits for the healthcare industry
To a health institution struggling to keep costs down, the Freedom bed would be a great investment. Freedom medical beds divert attention from full-time care giving allowing medical staff to be deployed elsewhere, maximizing on strategic planning.
- It supports a strategy whereby patients no longer have to live within an institution but can go home and be taken care of just like they would within the institution
- Direct medical expenditures arising from bedsores and other complications are reduced
- The length of hospital stay is reduced for patients, diverting that nursing attention to critically ill patients
In retrospect
If you are fed up with waking up tired, you deserve a bed that will adjust to your life and that of your loved ones. A Freedom medical bed will give you the quality of sleep you need, whether you are a patient or not. You can easily adjust your bed to comfortably read a book, watch television, or just sleep in a particular desired position. Many users have showered praises upon Freedom medical beds for the sheer flexibility that these wonderfully innovative beds provide.