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Which Bed Goes Where: Planning a Care Home Bed Fleet with Cura and SPIN

2026-09-09

Which Bed Goes Where: Planning a Care Home Bed Fleet with Cura and SPIN 1

When a care home calls us about outfitting a new wing, the first question is almost always the same: "which bed should we buy?"

It's the wrong question, and we've learned not to answer it too quickly.

The right question is "which beds?" — plural. A building that buys one model for every room is really buying for a resident who doesn't exist: the average one. In twenty years of supplying care homes, we've never met her.

Most of the homes we work with end up running two of our lines together — the Cura and the SPIN. Not because one is better than the other. Because they do different jobs, and a full building has both jobs to do.

This is how we help operators plan that mix. It's less about spec sheets than you'd think, and more about walking the building room by room.

Start at the edge of the bed

Forget the labels for a minute. The planning method that actually works starts with one moment: what happens when a resident reaches the edge of the bed.

Run that moment across your residents and you'll usually find three groups:

People who can get out, but the move has become the hardest part of their day. They hesitate. They wait for someone to spot them.
People who can't get out at all. Care happens in the bed — repositioning, sitting up to eat, washing — and every transfer is a staff lift.
People who shouldn't be getting out on their own, but try anyway, often at two in the morning.

Those three groups need three different beds. That's the whole argument for a fleet instead of a single model.

Ward by ward

Long-term care wards: the Cura Pro and Cura Standard

On a long-term care ward, most residents are in the second group. The bed is a care tool for the staff as much as a place to sleep. That's where the Cura Pro earns its place.

The four motors aren't there for the brochure. Each one does a job the team will use daily: the backrest for sitting up to eat, the leg lift for comfort, the height adjustment so a nurse works at waist height instead of floor level, and the tilt for residents who get reflux at night or need their position changed regularly. It all runs from a handset that most staff learn in an afternoon.

For residents who need less — someone who mainly needs a dependable backrest and height adjustment — the Cura Standard covers the room at a lower cost per bed.

Why not a SPIN here? Because rotation only pays for itself if the person actually uses it to get out of bed. When every exit is a staffed transfer, you're paying for a function that never gets switched on.

Rehab and short-stay wards: the SPIN PRO

Short-stay and rehab wards are the opposite. The whole point is to send people home, which means they have to get out of bed — safely, and with less help over time.

That's the SPIN PRO's job. It rotates the sleeping surface ninety degrees so the resident's feet reach the floor and they're left sitting upright, ready to stand, with the machine doing the heavy part instead of a staff member's back. The first few days a therapist can supervise; by the end of the stay, a lot of residents press the button themselves.

The PRO also carries the full electric height adjustment, because on a busy ward the bed height changes at every transfer. You set it to the caregiver's working height, not the resident's.

Dementia and falls units: the Cura Low

On a dementia unit, you're often dealing with the third group: mobile enough to try getting out, not able to judge the risk. A rotation sequence needs intention and a button press — that's not a reliable tool here.

What those residents need is a bed that makes a bad decision less dangerous. The Cura Low drops the sleeping surface close to the floor, so a fall from the edge is a shorter fall. There's no routine to learn and no button to press — the bed just sits lower, and the night staff notice the difference.

Assisted living and independent apartments: the SPIN SINGLE and SPIN DOUBLE

In the apartments, you're not outfitting a ward at all. A resident lives there, often alone, and wants to keep it that way. The bed needs to look like furniture and still do the one job that matters: get them from lying to standing without calling for help.

That's the SPIN SINGLE — wood finishes, one button, self-operated. For a couple sharing a room where one partner needs help getting up, the SPIN DOUBLE gives each side its own control, so both people keep their independence.

A quick version of the logic:

Where	Bed	Why
Long-term care ward	Cura Pro / Standard	Positioning and staff ergonomics; exits are staffed
Rehab / short-stay	SPIN PRO	Rotation lets residents practice safe exits
Dementia / falls unit	Cura Low	Low deck shortens the fall
Independent apartments	SPIN SINGLE / DOUBLE	Self-operated, looks like furniture

Why buy both lines from one factory

This is the part that shows up in the budget, and it's the reason we make both lines instead of one.

When the Cura and SPIN come from a single manufacturer, you're not running two supply chains. The motors are the same German Dewert units, rated for 25,000-plus cycles. The certification package — IEC 60601-2-52, FDA registration, CE, SGS — covers the whole fleet, not bed by bed from different vendors. Spare parts are one conversation. Staff training is one session, because the handsets and the safety logic behave the same way.

There's a quieter benefit too. Both lines ship in the same containers and assemble in roughly the same time, so a mixed order fills a container more efficiently than two orders from two different factories would.

Plan for the beds to move

Care homes don't stand still. Residents change, and the beds need to change with them.

A resident arrives from hospital able to walk to the bathroom. Six months later, that's gone, and the SPIN in their room is now the wrong bed. Down the hall, someone who came in fully dependent is starting to stand with help — and could use that SPIN. Homes reshuffle a few beds every year; last year a 40-bed home we work with moved eleven of its beds between rooms. That's normal, and it's fine.

What makes it painless is having both lines in your own fleet. You redeploy internally instead of calling a new supplier, re-qualifying a vendor, and waiting on a different lead time. The bed that was right for room 14 is right for room 8 now.

Which Bed Goes Where: Planning a Care Home Bed Fleet with Cura and SPIN 2

Before you order

If you're planning a purchase, here's the sequence we'd suggest:

Walk each ward and count your residents against the edge-of-bed test. The mix is usually not what the staff assumed.
Don't buy the whole fleet at once. Start with the ward where the current beds hurt the most — often rehab or the dementia unit — and phase the rest.
Get one sample of the line you're least sure about. Put it in a real room for two weeks. Let the staff complain about it. That's how you'll know.

And if you want, send us your floor plan. We'll walk it with you and suggest where each bed belongs — and where a simpler, cheaper bed is the right call. There's no point putting a rotating bed in a room where nobody will ever press the button.

We build the Cura and SPIN lines in our own factory at AIDASTRA. If you're outfitting a wing or replacing a ward, send the floor plan — we'll tell you which bed goes where.