Our home visiting physiotherapists & occupational therapists provide a comprehensive multi-factorial falls assessment in your own home or care home. Seeing you at home helps us to see you in your own environment, where most falls tend to happen.

Your physio or OT will complete a detailed home assessment assessing strength, mobility, balance, confidence and functional movement to help identify any balance or gait deficits. They will also look at your home environment and identify any hazards such as flooring, equipment, space or lighting to complete a thorough evaluation of contributing falls risks. Your therapist will devise a detailed treatment plan to help reduce your risk of falls, improve safety around the home, maximise your independence, and improve your confidence.

We can help identify areas of concern and work with you and your carers on a falls prevention plan. Our physiotherapists use validated outcome measures to help identify falls risk and aid goal setting.

Falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury death with the majority of falls occurring in adults over 60. Older people are at highest risk of death or severe injury following a fall (WHO, 2001). Physiotherapy intervention can significantly reduce the risk of falls and has been shown to reduce this risk by a third (CSP, 2014).

Our physiotherapists are specialists in elderly physiotherapy and falls prevention. Older-people physiotherapists are able to identify areas of difficulty with movement, strength and balance and will provide a tailored exercise programme to suit each individual. It is important that these exercises are supervised and progressed regularly to ensure the best treatment outcomes are achieved.  

Home assessment, mobility, balance and functional training are recommended by the World Health Organisation for falls prevention and management.

We will spend time with you to discuss your concerns and difficulties, we care in helping you achieve your goals and wish to improve your quality of life and well-being. Your personalised treatment and exercise programme will be designed to suit you.

We can also assess outdoor mobility and work on your walking and confidence outside.

How physiotherapy & occupational therapy can help:

• Strengthening muscles. Your physiotherapist will identify areas of weakness and will aim to strengthen the muscles in your legs, core and upper body to help improve your stability and balance. This will help to not only reduce your falls risk but can also improve bone health and your overall general health.

• Improve balance. Both static and dynamic balance exercises are crucial to maintaining stability while standing still and when moving. Balance exercises prescribed by a qualified physiotherapist will be prescribed at the right level and can be progressed when required. This will help to enhance the body’s ability to react and maintain stability in response to different situations.

• Improve coordination. Coordination between body parts is required to maintain balance and helps to prevent falls and injury allowing the body to react quickly to positional changes and movement.

• Environmental assessment. We can provide a comprehensive falls assessment at home, assessing the home for risk of falls and equipment which may benefit safety around the home.

• Reduce fear of falling. Your physiotherapist can help to improve your confidence and reduce your fear of falling by providing education, exercise and support.

• Improve functional ability. We can help improve your ability, safety and confidence in completing everyday activities.