In Germany alone, there are about 5 million falls of older people per year. Almost one in three 65- to 80-year-olds and even two in one of the over-80s fall at least once a year. We have already described in one of our blog posts what a fall can have consequences. The following is a way to increase the security in everyday care.
In order to better counteract accidents, the SafeFree® side guards, which can be adjusted in four steps in just a few seconds, were developed. It is individually adjustable according to the size of the occupants, so that the optimal support angle for the occupant can be selected for an active and safe mobilization. A perfect complement to this is the wissner-bosserhoff 3-stop strategy for bed height adjustment: the automatic stopover at chair height facilitates active and passive occupant mobilization day and night, thereby reducing the risk of falling.
Side guards – Solution of a permanent problem
The development of the SafeFree ® side guard also provides a solution that makes it possible to avoid the conflict of interest when using a side guard. Because, for operators and nurses, the handling of side guards is a real dilemma. Connected with considerable liability risks: „too little protection“ can cause serious crashes. On the other hand, „too much protection“ can legally be regarded as a restraint and thus even entail criminal consequences.
SafeFree® makes the big difference with its tried-and-tested half-sided side protection with foot-side exit option> 102 cm. This type of page safety score scores particularly well in the assessment by a network of experienced judges – initiated by the Werdenfelser Weg (WW) – with regard to the assessment of restraints, in contrast to bed frames with a mean or foot gap> 31.8 cm. In his „Argumentation help to different side guards“ the WW notes: „Half-sided side guards with foot-side exit option> 102 cm are in principle in almost all cases, no deprivation of liberty.“
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