There are many and great advantages in using a patient bed at home. Firstly, they allow any patients who have to spend their recovery period at home to do so in the midst of familiar surroundings. This inevitably improves morale and speeds up one's healing process. Secondly, adjusting the bed's functions allows patients to lie in a position that feels comfortable to them. Whether they're sitting up, flat on their back or needing elevation for medical reasons, this simply cannot be done with a regular mattress because it will cause discomfort in any such situation. The bed also lightens the physical workload on caregivers. Adjusting patients‘ positions is one of the main ways in which people get injured, and thus is a good way for accidents to happen even when they seem outside gravity's realm. Furthermore the specially designed bed can help to prevent falls (and bedsores) by redistributing pressure just as it mounts too much for any given spot, rather than over a very narrow area. Finally, there are practical benefits of a home patient bed: it is easy to use and durable, and might also cost less than long-term hospital stays or nursing home care in the aggregate.