Science Friction: Can Bed Mobility Be Easier for Patients and Caregivers?

Course overview

Nancy McGovern, retired physiotherapist and healthcare innovator, joins host Carol Chiang to explore a deceptively simple question: Can sheets and sleepwear be designed to make bed mobility easier? With more than 50 years of experience as a physiotherapist, injury prevention advisor, and innovator across all healthcare sectors, Nancy shares the clinically driven journey behind her development of a mobility-enhancing garment and sheet system. Together, she and Carol discuss practical challenges faced by patients and caregivers and what the science says about friction-reducing textiles. Whether you're working with clients poststroke, managing nocturnal immobility in Parkinson's, or simply looking for smarter ways to support aging in place, this conversation may change how you think about the bed itself.