Stepdown Care Beds: A Case Study

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Nevertheless hospitals need beds to work with the demand of care. And from admittance to discharge can be a long time. If all trusts prioritised elderly care it would free up 5,700 beds across hospitals and ensure elderly people like Mr Bates were not kept in hospital unnecessarily. (Imison, Thompson, and Poteliakhoff, 2012). This would benefit him as long stays prolong the start of recovery and normalisation. To start his recovery sooner he could be admitted him to a step down bed. This is a cost effective way to getting preparing him for home without having a long hospital stay. A stepdown care bed is a less clinical setting and is easier to start returning to normality (Boyd et al, 2012). Getting him back home is only a short term fix

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