How Does Nursing Home Furniture Differ From Care Home Furniture?

Here at Hill & Hill we are well known for the quality of both our Nursing home and Care home furniture. So you might be wondering what the difference between the two is. In many cases, the answer is actually, that there isn’t a difference. For other pieces, the biggest difference is how the piece can help make the resident more comfortable while aiding the nursing staff with their care.

Care Home Chairs

Nursing home and care home chairs can typically be the same. For both, it needs to be considered that they will be used for long periods of time, and usually by individuals with limited mobility. This means that they need to be comfortable, ergonomic and aid the resident in rising.
With this in mind, we have a selection of chairs available that will suit most residents. For most care and nursing homes, the common option is to invest in high back armchairs, either with or without wings. However, we appreciate that the fabric will also play an important role in finding the right supplier for this supportive chair. Here at Hill & Hill, we offer a range of fabrics that are all wipe clean or vinyl, helping to keep the home as sanitised as possible.
In care homes, there may be the option for a different style of chair, of course depending on the mobility of the residents. This means that we also have the option for mid-back, tub, or armless chairs. Why not find out your resident’s preferences?

Dining Room Furniture

As with the chairs above, the majority of dining room furniture is suitable for both nursing and care homes. However, we find that nursing homes will typically have a limited range due to the mobility of some of their residents and having mealtimes elsewhere.
Our collection of dining chairs has arms to aid the mobility of the individual when they are sitting or standing out of the chair. This also means that the stability of the arms has been taken into consideration upon manufacturing. As with all our furniture, the fabric can be selected to suit the room, the resident, or even at random to add a spot of colour, each seat cover will be either waterproof or wipe clean.
Dining tables, whether in a care home, nursing home or an elderly person’s own home, need to be stable. This means that they can lean their weight on the edge as they get up, and it does not falter or topple. Our collection of round, rectangle and square tables has been selected to be just that, a stable base. Not to mention they are all coated so that spillages will not damage the table surface!

Residential Beds

The biggest difference you will see between nursing home furniture to care home furniture is the beds. Typically, care homes can offer any style of bed, providing it is stable. While nursing homes will often have a large selection of their rooms as hospital-style beds.
While we can’t help with the motorised and mobile nursing beds, we can help with standard beds.
Here at Hill & Hill, we currently only have a small selection of beds on offer. This is while we ensure that every bed that we offer is to a standard that we are happy with and meets the right criteria for our customers.
Each bed that we currently offer is completely wipe clean, with no hard edges to add to possible bumps and scrapes. This includes offering wipe down mattresses.
We also offer an Indistruct bed as part of our challenging behaviours collection. While this bed does have a headboard, it offers a completely solid base that is both weighted and reinforced to ensure that it cannot be moved. We also offer the storage version where you can store goods under the mattress.

Here at Hill & Hill, we want to help you make your care home or nursing home as comfortable and as safe as possible for your residents. So if you have any questions regarding our products, or would like to know if adaptations are available, please contact the team who will be happy to assist you.