bedridden patient
Immobile hospital occupant
A bedridden patient is someone confined to bed due to illness, injury, or frailty—unable to get up and move about independently.
The phrase appears most often in medical and caregiving contexts: The hospice nurse checked on her bedridden patients twice daily.
After the stroke, he became a bedridden patient requiring round-the-clock care.
- invalidWithout legal force
- homeboundConfined to one's residence
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- nurseHealthcare provider, bedside
home care · long-term care · caregiver · visiting nurse · pillows · sheets · illness · fever · weakness · frail · pale · wasting away · recovery · get well soon · immobile · dependent · round the clock · sickbed