Call your local Fire house. Soom organizations, like Lions Club and Rotary, have loan closets. If you have access to Facebook. someone on online yardsales may be getting rid of one. Craigs list.
Thank you! I will keep on searching for an inexpensive bed. Yes disinfecting will be of the most importance..
My grandmother has been living out of the country and just got in to Miami in a repatriation flight. She has not insurances or medicare at this time. She solely depends on me and my mother for now.
Barb's right. Ask one of her treating doctors, who can refer your request to a DME, which will then contact you for delivery. That's assuming you have Medicare. If you have a Medicare Medigap policy as well, the cost would likely be free (it was back in the early 2000s, although there's a possibility that has changed.)
There also was a policy that after a certain number of months, the patient had the opportunity to "have bought" the bed, and it became the patient's possession, free of charge.
I would try that route before trying to find one to buy; you'd have to find a way to clean and disinfect it if you bought a used one.
My grandmother has been living out of the country and just got in to Miami in a repatriation flight. She has not insurances or medicare at this time. She solely depends on me and my mother for now.
There also was a policy that after a certain number of months, the patient had the opportunity to "have bought" the bed, and it became the patient's possession, free of charge.
I would try that route before trying to find one to buy; you'd have to find a way to clean and disinfect it if you bought a used one.