{"id":3895,"date":"2017-10-03T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T15:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2017-10-03T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T15:18:23","slug":"friendly-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3895","title":{"rendered":"Friendly Beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contributed by Joe Vosters and Sara Roehrig from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billrayhomemobility.com\/\">Bill-Ray Home Mobility<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Friendly-Beds.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3897\" src=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Friendly-Beds-300x159.png\" alt=\"Man pulling himself up in bed using the Friendly Bed device\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Friendly-Beds-300x159.png 300w, http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Friendly-Beds.png 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keeping people at home benefits everyone, and here is a new product to assist in that.&nbsp; Friendly Beds focuses on improved safety (for person and caregiver), independence, mobility, self-esteem, strength conditioning, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;Getting in\/out of bed (and repositioning in bed) can be difficult for people with many disabilities (especially Parkinsons) and presents a great risk of injury for both the person and caregiver &#8211; our product is often a perfect solution. In some cases, we are the main reason a person remains at home &#8211; in others we can be their ticket out of a nursing home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Points for Friendly Beds &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Injury\/fall prevention &#8211; heavy-duty components allow a person to help themselves, preventing injury to the person&nbsp;<u>and caregiver.<\/u><\/li>\n<li>Strength conditioning possibilities &#8211; exercise (in disguise) for overall health improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Allows couples to remain sleeping together despite mobility issues &#8211; a choice they never had before.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Independence\/self-esteem improvements &#8211; ease in self-repositioning for comfort and reduced risk of bed sores.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Helps keep people where they prefer to be at home.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Cost is less than 2 weeks in a nursing home and far less than the cost of a serious injury to person or caregiver.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The transfer bar option for people with little\/no leg strength is unique and critical for some people to remain home at all.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Friendly-Beds-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3898\" src=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Friendly-Beds-2-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the Friendly Bed device consisting of bars surrounding a bed.\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Friendly-Beds-2-300x277.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Friendly-Beds-2-768x708.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Friendly-Beds-2-1024x945.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friendly Beds is new, innovative, and unique &#8211; there is no other product with a three-foot-long trapeze, heavy-duty pivoting assist rails, attached balance pole, over-the-mattress nightstands, a transfer bar (for people with little\/no leg strength), etc.&nbsp; The product allows people to sleep in their normal wide bed (with space to roll over or sleep with a bed partner) despite the issues of age\/disability &#8211; a choice that never existed before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/friendlybeds.com\">www.FriendlyBeds.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3895\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Joe Vosters and Sara Roehrig from Bill-Ray Home Mobility Keeping people at home benefits everyone, and here is a new product to assist in that.&nbsp; 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