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Height-adjustable, with a low entry and including a stand-up aid - a nursing bed is a good support for private care at home in the event of illness or old age. We present different models and explain which features and practical functions you should pay attention to when buying a suitable nursing bed.
What exactly is a nursing bed?
A healthy and restful sleep is particularly valuable for a person in need of care. And this soothing peace is best achieved in a cozy and comfortable place. A care bed can offer exactly this space, because unlike a normal bed, special care beds bring comfort and safety (back) into everyday life thanks to their special construction. Among other things, they have a multi-adjustable lying surface, which in most cases can be adjusted electrically and continuously using a hand switch.
Thanks to the adjustable lying surfaces, adequate positioning is possible even when lying down for longer periods and can always be readjusted. This not only relieves the strain on the spine, but also prevents painful pressure points. In addition, the bed is designed to provide support when getting up. The entry height of the bed is correspondingly low and it can even be equipped with various additional features, such as: B. Grab handles can be provided to support independence and mobility when getting up and lying down. But such a special bed has advantages not only for the patient, but also for the nursing staff, because the flexible design makes tasks such as daily personal care and eating significantly easier.
What is the difference between a care bed and a senior bed?
While nursing beds are designed with a number of special features and functions, a senior bed is a simpler model that serves as a comfortable everyday bed. As a rule, however, a senior bed has a low entry height and an additional four-way adjustable lying surface. All other features of a care bed are omitted.
Functions and features: What should you consider when purchasing a nursing bed?
Height-adjustable lying surface: Individual adjustment and adjustment of the height of the lying surface to the height of the person requiring care makes getting into bed and of course getting out of bed much easier. The continuous height adjustment also means that the caregiver can adjust the lying surface to make care easier.
Adjustable lying surface: Raise your upper body, elevate your legs or pelvis - various adjustable positions of the lying surface not only enable different (orthopedic) positions, but also comfortable sitting in the nursing bed for eating or reading. What is important for these adjustment options is a flexible nursing bed mattress whose shape adapts to the respective positioning.
Electric adjustment: Many nursing beds are electrically adjustable. Equipped with reliable, powerful motors, the lying surface can be individually adjusted at the push of a button using a hand switch. Our tip: Pay attention to the volume of the motor here too.
High resilience: Good stability is the be-all and end-all. The material and construction of a care bed are therefore designed for high mechanical resilience, so that the construction can not only withstand more weight, but also stress caused by movements is not a problem.
As a rule, a senior bed has a low entry height and also a four-way adjustable lying surface. All other features of a nursing bed are omitted. Functions and features:
What should you pay attention to when buying a nursing bed?
Compared to a normal bed, a care bed offers a number of comfortable and helpful extras to meet different needs and requirements. We have put together the most important functions, designs and handling for you that you should pay attention to when buying a care bed: Height-adjustable lying surface: Individual adjustment and adjustment of the height of the lying surface to the height of the person in need of care makes it easier to get into bed and of course that too Getting out of bed significantly. But the continuously adjustable height also means that the nursing staff can adjust the lying surface so that the patient can get out of bed more easily.
What are care mattresses?
A good care mattress is especially necessary if you have to spend a large part of the day in bed due to illness, disability or old age. These mattresses, suitable for nursing and hospital beds, have many more functions than ordinary mattresses, which is why they are not available everywhere. At Gorilla Gesund you have a large selection of special mattresses that are primarily tailored to conditions such as pressure sores, incontinence or dementia. In addition, such functional mattresses are generally easier to care for and usually have a lower weight than standard mattresses. This makes handling easier for all carers who have to clean and turn the mattresses. Choosing the right nursing bed mattress is therefore at least as important as the bed itself.
The importance of mattresses for nursing beds
While a healthy person spends on average around eight hours in bed, patients in need of care have to stay in bed significantly longer. Serious illnesses or even comatose states often mean that the patient has to lie in bed 24 hours a day. For this reason, it is important that care mattresses are not only comfortable but also functional. A comfortable lying position and a healthy posture not only contribute to a restful sleep, but ideally also to recovery. If the patient or person in need of care lies uncomfortably for a long time or sleeps poorly or only little, further physical or health problems can result. To counteract this, medical mattresses are indispensable in care.
What you should consider before buying a nursing bed mattress
Before choosing a special mattress based on its functional properties, you should pay attention to what body weight the mattress is designed for. Finally, as with standard mattresses, the level of firmness is crucial to comfort. There are also different degrees of hardness for nursing bed mattresses. In addition to the patient's weight, the form of the disease also determines how soft or hard the mattress should be. Pain sufferers, for example, need a softer mattress on average. Of course, the patient's personal feelings should also be taken into account. After all, everyone prefers a different level of hardness.
In addition, before purchasing, you should find out whether you need a special nursing bed or whether the nursing mattress also fits into normal bedroom beds. It is not only important to measure the width and length of the bed frame, but also to consider whether the height of the bed is suitable for the person in need of care. Mattresses designed specifically for nursing beds are usually not as thick as conventional mattresses, so a standard bed equipped with a nursing mattress may be too low. A lying surface that is too deep often makes it difficult to get in and out.
You should also measure the existing slatted frame and buy a new one if necessary. Some slatted frames are not suitable for special mattresses because the distance between the individual slats is too large. In this case, adjustable slatted frames are particularly recommended as they make both care and adjustment of the lying position easier. An adjustable lying surface also allows the patient to assume a sitting position in bed, which allows him, for example, B. makes eating easier.
Which mattress is the right one?
In addition to a high level of comfort, functional properties are extremely important when choosing the right functional mattress. Regardless of the patient's condition, all nursing bed mattresses and their covers should be particularly easy to care for. This is the only way to ensure that they are always in a hygienically clean condition. In addition to the standard care mattress, which is particularly suitable for people who do not require special treatment due to illness, certain functions must be taken into account depending on physical limitations.
If the mattress is intended to make illness more bearable in everyday life, it should have particularly comfortable properties. If you have rheumatism, osteoarthritis or back problems, mattresses are suitable that provide you with sufficient support in your lying position and relieve pressure on the intervertebral discs, joints and spine. In the case of dementia, there are also special mattresses that are tailored to such a clinical picture.
What are anti-decubitus mattresses?
When the person being cared for is forced to spend a lot of time in a hospital bed and is unable to turn over on their own due to physical limitations, "pressure ulcers," also known as pressure ulcers, can be a serious problem. Pressure or friction causes damage to the skin and underlying tissue. Pressure sores begin with reddening of the skin, expand into an open, often infected wound and, in the worst case, end with the death of skin cells. In order to prevent or counteract painful pressure sores, a special anti-decubitus mattress is required. These anti-decubitus mattresses primarily have requirements for optimal pressure distribution and ventilation and are therefore suitable for the prevention and treatment of pressure sores. Such mattresses are particularly recommended for patients who are at high risk of pressure ulcers, who have already been diagnosed with pressure ulcers or who require follow-up treatment.
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