Benefits
Citizen / Patient:
- Fewer pressure ulcers
- Less pain and wound care
- More comfort
- Fewer skin problems and less odor
- Comfortable pressure relief
- Quicker mobilisation
- Safety from falling out of the bed
- Easy to operate – more citizens can be self-reliant
- Also suitable for overweight persons
- Helps preventing pneumonia in bedridden patients
The personnel:
- Better work environment
- Fewer injuries to the locomotor system
- From 2 to 1, “the sensible transfer”
- Efficiency improvement
- Less time spent tending to pressure ulcers
- Aid to transferring, personal hygiene and mobilization of patients
- Less medical equipment to fit into the small rooms
- The obvious choice for a mattress
- Easy to operate
Nursing homes & hospitals:
- Half as many mobilizations of patients
- Saves resources
- Substantial health economics savings
- Shorter bedtime for the patients
- Fewer hospitalizations
- Longer life cycle compared to existing products – fewer replacements and reparations
- Less need for homecare and in-home help
- Savings on rehabilitation