The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Bed Handles Inc., of Blue Springs, Mo., are reannouncing the voluntary recall of about 113,000 adult portable bed handles. The recall involves adult portable bed handles sold by Bed Handles, Inc. from…
Sign the Petition to Protect the Elderly from Dangerous Bed Rails
Bed (side) rails are commonly found on beds in long-term care facilities and are used to keep the people from falling out of bed or getting out and wandering off. They are typically made of metal or plastic and can…
BED RAILS ARE NOT ILLEGAL
In response to recent articles in the Detroit Free Press about abuses in long-term care facilities, a reader who claimed to sell furniture to nursing homes wrote a letter to the editor claiming that nursing homes in Michigan are fined if…
Death by Bed Rail
We are investigating the death of a 91 year old who choked to death in the side rails of her bed in an adult foster care facility. Nursing homes rarely, if ever utilize side rails following the rash of choking deaths…