In what experts call an "epidemic of immobility," older hospital patients remain stuck in bed, their movements tracked by loud and ineffective bed alarms, losing muscle mass that's key to their health ...

Dorothy Twigg was living on her own, cooking and walking without help until a dizzy spell landed her in the emergency room. She spent three days confined to a hospital ...

Hospitals that have ‘mobilisation’ policies to encourage patients out of bed earlier usually see measurable benefits.

He and other advocates say hospitals need to revamp old-fashioned models of patient care to address the nation’s aging population — from getting patients out of bed to offering better food and ...

A new standing hospital bed can tilt a patient's bed from prone to standing to make recovery go faster.

Patients in hospital with reduced mobility may experience difficulty moving in and out of bed. Part 3 of this five-part series explained how to help patients transfer from bed to chair without ...

He even said some patients, who have been really reluctant to get out of bed, have been spotted getting up, and walking around in search of Pokémon.

Then he told me, ‘We can’t help you get your patient out of the bed because it’s a liability and if he gets hurt, it’s on our dime.’ ...

Getting more patients out of bed will also take a significant change in mindset, she said. “If we think that a patient walking is a patient who will fall,” King said, “we have to shift that ...

Hospitals have become so overzealous in fall prevention that they are producing an “epidemic of immobility,” according to experts by keeping patients in their beds.

"Fear of falling": How hospitals do even more harm by keeping patients in bed Hospitals have become so overzealous in fall prevention that they are producing an “epidemic of immobility” ...