Bruce McGowan felt privileged to hold his wife Belinda as she died, and now wants all palliative care patients to have the option to be close to loved ones at the end of their life.
Cuddle beds are two single beds joined with a purpose-designed mattress to allow loved ones to physically connect when in hospital for palliative or maternity care.What's next?
In the three years since her death, Mr McGowan has taken up a mission: to bring dedicated "cuddle beds" to palliative care patients in rural and remote hospitals.A cuddle bed is made up of two single beds joined together with a purpose-designed mattress for palliative and maternity care.Cuddle beds allow palliative, paediatric and maternity patients to be close to loved ones.
"When our children are born, we're close to them and we spend a lot of time imprinting on them," he said.Cuddle beds aren't a new invention, but Mr McGowan said he had been working with suppliers to make modifications specifically suited to rural hospitals.The health service in Barcaldine, more than 1,000 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, was the first central west hospital to receive a bed from the McGowan Foundation.
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