Falls prevention, built into the bed

The rightbed height.Every bed.All the time.

BedSet sits on the headboard, checks the bed height against the level set for each patient, and alerts nursing staff through the nurse call system when it drifts. No wearables. No cameras. Nothing touching the patient.

The problem

In hospital and aged care, most falls happen around the bed.

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of falls on hospital wards for older patients happened around the bed.1

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of adult inpatient falls happened while the patient was getting out of or back into bed. For falls that caused an injury, it was 56%.2
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longer in hospital for a patient who falls while admitted: 8 days for any fall, around 12 when the fall causes an injury. That is around $9,500 in extra hospital costs per patient in today’s dollars.3
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of beds in a nursing home study were too high for the person in them to get in and out safely.4
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of older adults in a bed-height study could not stand up from a low hospital bed without help. Lowest is not always safest.5

The right height is easy to set. Keeping it there is the hard part.

Our solution

Meet BedSet.

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A small device on the headboard that knows the safe bed height for the patient in that bed, watches it around the clock, and tells staff the moment it needs attention.

Small on the headboard. Big on the ward.

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new workflowsIt fits the way wards already run. One press on admission, then it looks after itself.
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new bedsRetrofits to the height-adjustable beds hospitals and aged care already own.
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patient contactNothing worn, nothing under the mattress, no camera in the room.
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guessworkStaff no longer have to remember or estimate the right height for each person.
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Sources

  1. P1Fonda D, Cook J, Sandler V, Bailey M. Sustained reduction in serious fall-related injuries in older people in hospital. Medical Journal of Australia 2006; 184(8): 379–382. Aged Care Services wards at Caulfield General Medical Centre, Melbourne: four wards, 96 to 120 beds, covering acute care of the elderly, geriatric evaluation and management, and restorative care; average patient age 82.4; January 2001 to December 2003. Root-cause analysis of falls: “82% of falls were not observed. Over 60% occurred around the bed.” mja.com.au
  2. P2Tzeng HM. Understanding the prevalence of inpatient falls associated with toileting in adult acute care settings. J Nurs Care Qual 2010; 25(1): 22–30. One US community hospital (Michigan). Full text: 51.4% of adult inpatient falls, and 56.0% of injurious falls, occurred while the patient was getting out of or back to bed. The full text is behind a paywall; the abstract reports only that 45.2% of falls were related to toileting, most often on the way from the bed or chair to the bathroom. doi.org/10.1097/NCQ.0b013e3181afa321
  3. P1Morello RT, Barker AL, Watts JJ, et al. The extra resource burden of in-hospital falls: a cost of falls study. Medical Journal of Australia 2015; 203(9): 367. Six Australian hospitals, 27,026 admissions, 966 (3.6%) with at least one fall. Adjusted mean increase in length of stay: 8.1 days for any fall compared with non-fallers, plus a further 4.2 days for a fall with injury compared with a fall without injury, around 12 days combined. Mean additional hospital cost $6,669 in 2013 Australian dollars. mja.com.au The “around $9,500” is BedSet’s uplift of that figure to June 2026 dollars using the ABS All groups CPI, weighted average of eight capital cities (2013 average 103.5 on the 2011–12 base; June quarter 2026 102.03 on the September 2025 base, chained to 146.5), which gives about $9,440. abs.gov.au
  4. P1Capezuti E, Wagner L, Brush BL, et al. Bed and toilet height as potential environmental risk factors. Clinical Nursing Research 2008; 17(1): 50–66. 263 residents of four US nursing homes. Seat height above 120% of lower leg length can impede safe transfer; bed height of three fourths of participants was greater than 140% of lower leg length. The “up to 94%” figure is this study’s finding that 93.9% of residents had bed heights greater than 120% of lower leg length, as reported in Tzeng et al, Nursing staff’s awareness of keeping beds in the lowest position, Medsurg Nursing 2012; 21(5): 271–274 (open access, PMC3639136). [P2: secondary report of the full text] pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18184978
  5. P1Merryweather AS, Morse JM, Doig AK, Godfrey NW, Gervais P, Bloswick DS. Effects of bed height on the biomechanics of hospital bed entry and egress. Work 2015; 52(3): 707–713. Pilot study of 12 adults aged over 55 with a range of strength and mobility limitations: “50% of participants were unable to rise from the low bed without assistance.” doi.org/10.3233/WOR-152110
  6. P1Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Preventing Falls Guide Reference Document: Australian Hospitals, 2025. Lists “appropriate bed height” among environmental risk factors to address in the daily care plan. anzfallsprevention.org (PDF)