Bed rails present a safety risk, particularly when a resident is elderly or disoriented. Disoriented residents may view a bed rail a barrier to climb over, may slide between raised, segmented bed rails, or may go to the end of the bed to get around a raised bed rail. When exiting the bed like this, the resident is at risk for entrapment entanglement or falling from a greater height posed by the raised bed rail, with a possibility of suffering a greater injury than if they had fallen from the height of a lower bed without raised bed rails.