$3,999
- Fully-Electric Adjustable Seniors Bed
- Head, Foot, and Up/Down Elevation
Beds For Seniors
Senior Beds That Don’t Look Clinical or Medical
$3,999
$6,999
$8,499
The short answer: the best bed for a senior is a full-electric adjustable bed with an ultra-low height setting for fall safety, quiet motors for nighttime use, and a residential look that keeps the bedroom feeling like home. SonderCare adjustable beds for seniors deliver all three, paired with a memory-foam mattress engineered for the base. Single sleepers, couples, and larger frames are covered by the Aura Premium ($6,999), Aura Extra Wide ($8,999), and Aura Platinum ($8,499). Call 833-649-7772 to speak with a senior bed expert.
Is Purchasing a Senior Bed Right For You?
Every SonderCare Seniors Bed is designed and engineered to provide the utmost in safety, comfort, and dignity for our clients and their loved ones. When you need a little more assistance than a standard Seniors Bed can provide, but you don’t want your living space to resemble a hospital room, SonderCare offers the perfect combination of positions, functions, and style.
Put simply, the best Seniors Bed available today.
(Based on 110 reviews) SonderCare offers a complete line of full-electric adjustable beds for seniors, each built on a hospital-certified adjustable base and paired with pressure-relieving mattresses. The core features are the same across the line: synchronized hi-lo height adjustment, independent head and knee positioning, quiet motors for nighttime care, and a residential design. Browse the three beds for seniors below, or call 833-649-7772 to match the right adjustable bed and mattress to your needs.
The Aura Premium is the best overall adjustable bed for seniors. At $6,999, it delivers a 39-inch sleeping surface rated for 500 lbs, a FallSafe ultra-low platform that drops to 10 inches (17 inches to the mattress top), and a 39-inch high position so caregivers can work without bending. Trendelenburg, Zero Gravity, and Cardiac Chair positions are included for medical comfort under physician guidance.
The Aura Extra Wide at $8,999 widens the sleeping surface to 48 inches while keeping the full Aura positioning suite, the FallSafe ultra-low height, and 500-lb capacity. It is the right choice for seniors who shift position often, prefer more room than a standard adjustable bed, or want extra space for a partner to sit on the edge during transfers.
The Aura Platinum at $8,499 adds fully upholstered side panels in Slate Gray Crypton fabric and a furniture-grade headboard, making it visually indistinguishable from premium bedroom furniture. Same safety and positioning as the Aura Premium, designed for seniors and families who refuse to compromise on bedroom aesthetics.
Most consumer adjustable beds are designed to make sleeping more comfortable. A SonderCare adjustable bed for seniors is designed to do that and more: protect against falls, ease daily transfers, support clinical positioning for medical comfort, and reduce strain on a caregiver who may also be aging. The features in the adjustable base, the engineered mattresses on top of it, and the residential design together close the gap between consumer comfort and medical-grade safety.
A SonderCare electric adjustable bed uses two motors to move the backrest, knee section, and the full bed frame on a hi-lo lift. A backlit remote drives every adjustment, so no hand-cranking is ever required. The Aura line raises the head up to 71 degrees and the knees up to 33 degrees, lowers to a 10-inch platform for safe exits, and rises to a 39-inch caregiver-friendly height. Quiet operation - rated at about 54 dB(A), quieter than a normal conversation - means a partner can sleep through a nighttime adjustment.
An adjustable bed for seniors and a hospital bed share many parts but serve different lives. An adjustable wellness bed belongs in a bedroom that still feels like home; a hospital bed is what a clinician orders when daily medical care is the primary need. If you specifically need a hospital bed for a complex care situation, see our buyer's guide on how to choose a home hospital bed. For aging in place, recovery, sleep comfort, and independence, an adjustable senior bed is almost always the better fit.
Independence is the quiet center of every good senior bed decision. A bed that a senior can adjust without help - sitting up to read, raising the legs to ease swelling, lowering to standing height to get out of bed safely - keeps the bedroom on their terms. SonderCare beds are built around that idea: the user stays in control, the spouse keeps the shared room, and the family caregiver does less hands-on lifting because the bed does the work.
Adjustable beds can help with a long list of common senior conditions because they let the body rest in positions a flat bed cannot. The most consistent benefits show up at night, when poor sleep amplifies pain, breathing trouble, and mobility loss.
Elevating the head of the bed by six to eight inches uses gravity to keep stomach acid where it belongs. For seniors with GERD or nighttime heartburn, this single adjustment often does more than medication alone, and an adjustable bed holds the angle safely all night - something a stack of pillows cannot.
Raising the head of an adjustable bed opens the airway, reduces snoring, and can ease the severity of obstructive sleep apnea for many older adults. The Aura's preset positions make finding the right angle a one-button task. For seniors using CPAP, the right elevation also makes the mask seal more comfortably.
The Zero Gravity preset elevates the head and legs to a neutral, near-weightless position that takes pressure off the lower spine and major joints. For seniors managing arthritis, chronic back pain, or recovery from a fall, this is the position most clinicians describe as restorative. Raising just the legs and feet also helps with lower-limb swelling and supports venous circulation, which matters for seniors with edema or heart issues.
Safety is where consumer adjustable beds quietly fall short and where a SonderCare senior bed differentiates. Falls are the leading cause of injury for adults 65 and older, and many of those falls happen at the edge of the bed. The right adjustable bed reduces the height of a possible fall, makes the transfer in and out of bed safer for elderly users with limited mobility, and protects the caregiver's back during repositioning and care.
The FallSafe ultra-low position drops the SonderCare Aura platform to just 10 inches off the floor, or 17 inches to the mattress top. From that height, a roll out of bed lands soft and short instead of long and hard. No consumer adjustable bed for seniors goes this low. For seniors with dementia, balance loss, or a history of falling out of bed, ultra-low height matters more than any rail or sensor.
Hi-lo adjustable beds add extra independence on both sides of the transfer. The Aura rises to a pre-programmed 21-inch transfer height for safe bed-to-wheelchair moves, and to 39 inches for caregivers, so hands-on care can happen without bending. Lower for the senior, higher for the caregiver, every adjustment quiet and powered.
Two features that consumer reviewers rarely test matter most at night. The Aura's electric motors run at about 54 dB(A) - quieter than typical conversation - so a sleeping partner is not woken by a 3 a.m. adjustment. A 9-volt battery backup keeps the bed lowerable in a power outage, which is reassuring when the user cannot exit the bed unaided.
Four questions get most families to the right adjustable bed for a senior: How much mobility does the user have? What mattress will work with the base? Will the bed share a room with a partner? And does the room itself need a residential look? Match the features to the answers, and the choice gets simple.
Seniors with good mobility who want comfort and aging-in-place safety do well with the Aura Premium and a memory-foam mattress. Seniors who are moving toward heavier care - frequent transfers, daily caregiver presence, complex medical positioning - benefit from the same bed for the same reasons; nothing about the Aura limits care, it just hides the clinical look. The Aura Extra Wide fits seniors who want more room or whose caregivers sit on the edge for transfers.
An adjustable bed base is only as good as the mattress on top of it. Traditional innerspring mattresses will not bend with an adjustable base; a memory foam mattress or hybrid pocket-coil mattress will. SonderCare mattresses are built for the Aura adjustable bed frame, with three pairings most senior buyers choose from.
All three mattresses are sized to fit a 39-inch adjustable bed frame, with 48-inch Extra Wide and split-king sizes available for the wider Aura models. Browse the full SonderCare mattress lineup for senior adjustable beds, or call to talk through which mattress fits the user.
Measure the doorway (36 inches is standard, and SonderCare beds fit through), the hallway turn radius, and the bedroom footprint. A 39-inch single bed needs 80 inches by 40 inches of floor space; a 48-inch Extra Wide adds nine inches of width; a 78-inch Companion bed takes the same footprint as a king. Aesthetics decide between the Aura Premium and Aura Platinum - both function identically; the Platinum's upholstered Crypton fabric reads as furniture, not equipment.
Beds for seniors come in three useful sizes, and the right one depends on whether the user sleeps alone or shares the room with a partner who has different needs. All three sizes use the same adjustable base mechanics and pair with SonderCare mattresses sized to fit.
Most seniors do well with a 39-inch surface (Aura Premium or Aura Platinum) - similar to a twin XL, with enough room to shift but compact enough to fit any bedroom. Seniors who want more shoulder room or accommodate a partner sitting on the edge step up to the 48-inch Aura Extra Wide.
When one partner needs an adjustable bed and the couple still wants to sleep side by side, the Aura Companion Bed ($12,999) joins two independent 39-inch surfaces into a 78-inch split king rated for 700 lbs total. Each side adjusts its own head and knee positions, so one partner can sit up to read while the other lies flat, and both sides raise and lower together for transfers. It is the option most senior adjustable bed reviews miss, and the one that keeps a marriage feeling like a marriage.
Honestly, no, not in most cases. Medicare Part B may cover a basic adjustable or semi-electric bed only when it is classified as Durable Medical Equipment and a physician documents that a standard bed is inadequate for medical reasons. Coverage typically pays 80% of the Medicare-approved amount, which applies to a basic frame, not a premium residential bed. Most families who choose a premium adjustable bed for a senior pay privately or supplement a covered rental. For a detailed look at what Medicare will and will not pay for, see what kind of hospital bed Medicare pays for.
Every feature in a SonderCare adjustable bed exists for a senior reason. The 10-inch FallSafe ultra-low adjustable height is engineered around hip-fracture risk for elderly users. The 39-inch high position is set at the caregiver's hip. The 71-degree backrest matches the angle clinicians recommend for breathing comfort. The 5-year warranty matches the life-stage of an aging-in-place decision. The fully electric controls match the dexterity an elderly hand still has when arthritis arrives. The Crypton-upholstered Platinum panels match the bedroom that took 40 years to feel like home.
The Aura line's key features are designed around real senior needs - and the same features make these beds suitable for caregivers who need them to do more over time. Independence today, full medical-grade support tomorrow, all in one adjustable bed frame.
SonderCare is an FDA-registered medical device establishment, and the Aura line is manufactured under an ISO 13485-certified quality management system. The full Aura line is approved for adult users 88 lbs or more, 4'9" or taller, with a BMI of 17 or higher. Talk to a SonderCare bed expert if any of those limits are close.
For most seniors, the best bed is a full-electric adjustable bed with an ultra-low height setting, independent head and knee positioning, and a residential look that does not signal a clinical setting. Adjustability makes getting in and out of bed easier, the low setting reduces fall risk, and the right mattress flexes with the base to relieve pressure on the back, hips, and joints. The SonderCare Aura line delivers this medical-grade safety in a furniture-grade design.
Yes. Elevating the head of an adjustable bed by six to eight inches uses gravity to reduce the nighttime acid reflux that causes GERD. The angle is held comfortably all night - something a stack of pillows cannot do safely, especially for seniors who shift position in their sleep.
Medicare generally does not cover consumer adjustable beds. Medicare Part B may cover a basic adjustable or semi-electric bed only when classified as Durable Medical Equipment, with a physician's documentation of medical necessity. Coverage typically pays 80% of the approved amount for a standard frame, not a premium residential bed. Most families who choose a premium senior bed pay privately or supplement a covered rental.
An adjustable bed needs a mattress that flexes with the base and relieves pressure. A high-specification memory foam mattress is the right choice - ideally with a cooling gel layer and a firm, supportive edge for safe sitting. A traditional innerspring will not bend. SonderCare mattresses are engineered to pair with the Aura adjustable frame for both daily comfort and pressure relief.
Choosing the right adjustable bed for a senior is rarely just about the bed - it is about how a family wants the bedroom to feel for the next ten years. Our bed experts have helped thousands of families pair the right Aura model with the right mattress for the right room. Every consultation is guidance, not a sales pitch.
Call 833-649-7772 or contact a SonderCare senior bed expert to find the adjustable bed that fits your home, your senior, and your budget.
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