A home hospital bed is one of the most important purchases you will ever make. The right bed can transform your quality of life and comfort. But finding the right hospital bed is not as straightforward as buying an ordinary consumer bed.
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Home hospital beds are sophisticated pieces of medical equipment with many moving parts. Beds from different manufacturers range enormously in features, quality, and cost. Features are given different names in different stores. If you have no experience of adjustable beds, it can be difficult to get your head around the details.
In this article, we’re going to look at five factors that you should consider when choosing a home hospital bed for yourself or a loved one.
Most beds described as home hospital beds have at least head and foot adjustments: the upper and the lower section of the bed’s surface are adjustable up and down. These adjustments are great for people who need support to sit up in bed and for people with medical conditions that benefit from sleeping in an upright position.
A three-function bed typically adds a height adjustment: the surface of the bed raises and lowers relative to the floor. Beds with height adjustments are often called hi-low beds, and they are ideal for people with mobility and strength issues, who use wheelchairs, and who receive treatment while on the bed—caregivers should not have to stoop or stretch.
A five-function adjustable bed has the adjustments we’ve already discussed but includes tilt adjustments so the bed can be put in the Trendelenburg or Reverse Trendelenburg positions, which are advised for people with heart, circulatory, and other conditions. The Supernal 5 is an example of a 5-function home hospital bed.
The adjustments on a home hospital bed can be manual, semi-electric, or fully electric. Beds with manual adjustments have no external power source: they rely on muscle power. These are the least sophisticated beds on the market. They are unsuitable for people with strength or coordination issues, and the adjustments cannot be controlled by the bed’s occupant.
Semi-electric beds use electric motors on some of their adjustments. Typically, a motor powers the head and foot adjustments while the height adjustment is manually controlled with a hand crank.
Full-electric adjustable beds use motors on all adjustments. The adjustments are controlled with a remote control and can be easily operated by the bed’s occupant. All Transfer Master home hospital beds are full-electric with a wired or wireless remote.
The quality of home hospital beds is variable. Cheaper beds tend to use lower-quality materials and less robust construction. They are less durable and prone to a motor and joint failure on the adjustments, requiring expensive repairs. We would advise hospital bed buyers to inspect beds in person to assess the quality of their construction.
Adjustable beds have an upper limit to the amount of weight they can support. Exceeding the weight capacity is dangerous. It damages the motors powering the adjustments and adjustment mechanisms. Overloading a bed is also bad for patient health and can lead to injury and an increased risk of bedsores.
Transfer Master’s Supernal 5 supports up to 300 lbs and the Supernal Hi-Low up to 500 lbs. We also make bariatric hospital beds for heavier patients that support weights of up to 750 lbs.
Home hospital beds are medical equipment, and some manufacturers make no effort to conceal the fact. Their beds are instantly identifiable as hospital beds and do not blend in well with home decor. If the appearance of the bed and the bedroom is important to you, look for an adjustable bed designed to conceal the electrical components and adjustment mechanisms. Our beds are designed to blend in completely with their surroundings; when the adjustments are in their default position, they look just like a standard non-adjustable bed.
You have decided to buy a home hospital bed, but which bed is right for you? Adjustable beds are available with different features at various price points, and they are designed to satisfy the requirements of diverse locations, environments, and individual circumstances. To complicate matters, hospital bed manufacturers use brand-specific terminology that makes it even harder to compare models and features.
In this article, we cut through the jargon and focus on five of the most impactful hospital bed features. Once you have decided on these features, you’ll have a much easier time selecting the best hospital bed for your circumstances.
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Adjustments set home hospital beds apart from standard consumer beds. They allow users and caregivers to modify the bed’s height and the sleep surface’s shape, providing flexible treatment options, safe and comfortable repositioning, and support tailored to the user’s individual needs.
There are four basic adjustments you need to know about:
Luxury home hospital beds such as the Supernal 5 include all of these adjustments, but you can also buy beds with only head adjustments, both head and foot adjustments, only height adjustments, and other combinations.
The right choice depends on your circumstances: wheelchair users and people with mobility difficulties benefit greatly from height adjustments, whereas an otherwise healthy person with sleep apnea may see a substantial improvement from a simpler bed with a head adjustment.
If you want to learn more about choosing the best adjustable bed for your circumstances, don’t hesitate to contact our support team with your questions.
Once you have decided on the adjustments you need, the next factor to consider is how they are implemented and controlled. There are two basic options:
Motorized adjustments can be controlled in a number of different ways:
The bed’s occupant can easily adjust motorized beds with remote controls while they are in bed, a substantial advantage over manual beds that don’t offer the same degree of independence.
Home hospital beds are medical equipment, and the less sophisticated examples have designed more suited to a hospital ward than a bedroom. But you don’t have to find a space for a bulky bed with exposed mechanisms. You can buy home hospital beds that look just like an ordinary bed when the adjustments are in their default position and the bed linen is in place.
Transfer Master pioneered the design and engineering necessary to build adjustable beds that don’t look out of place in a domestic bedroom. Our late founder was granted several patents for adjustable bed mechanisms that conceal the workings within what looks like a standard consumer bed but with all the flexibility and convenience of a motorized hospital bed.
All of our beds, including the Supernal 5 are designed to blend with your bedroom decor.
Home hospital beds are engineered with a maximum weight capacity. Exceeding the weight capacity can be dangerous and it can damage the bed’s mechanisms and electronic components. Typically, adjustable beds can cope with occupants up to 300 lbs, although the precise capacity depends on the model. Our Supernal Hi-Low has a capacity of 400 or 500 lbs, depending on the option you choose.
If the combined weight of the bed’s occupants exceeds those capacities, you may want to consider a bariatric hospital bed engineered for heavier individuals. We stock bariatric hospital beds with capacities up to 750 lbs.
The mattress is an important component of your home hospital bed. Standard consumer mattresses are not designed to work well with adjustable hospital beds. They are often too thick to work well with the bed’s adjustments, and they can damage the bed or be a danger to the occupant.
Standard mattresses are also unsuitable for bedridden people who spend much of their time in bed; bedridden people are at risk of bedsores, and specialist home hospital bed mattresses are designed to reduce the risk, and in the case of pressure-relief mattresses, promote healing. When you buy a home hospital bed, you should factor the cost of a suitable hospital bed mattress into your deliberations.
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