Care and Nursing Home Visits

We provide mobility assessments and will prescribe suitable exercise programmes to help you improve your mobility or help you to remain mobile. We are able to work with your carers and families to provide a tailored treatment and exercise plan to you and your carers to work through. We can help maintain independence and immobility.

We are able to progress care plans as mobility improves and help to reduce care needs.

Ways we can help-

·       Reducing falls risk and improving confidence.

·       Improving mobility and movement.

·       Improving functional tasks such as getting out of a chair, in and out of bed, car transfers, toilet transfers.

·       Progressing strength and balance.

·       Improving outdoor mobility and walking distance.

·       Pain management with chronic conditions such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, peripheral neuropathy.

·       Long term conditions such as Stroke, Parkinson’s Disease, neurological conditions, COPD, dementia.

·       Equipment advice and mobility aids.

·       Improving exercise tolerance and fitness to help reduce risk of health conditions.

·       Improving confidence, anxiety management.

·       Improving independence, reducing care needs.

Physiotherapy intervention can help address age-related conditions and deconditioning as we get older. As we age, we naturally lose muscle and bone mass which can lead to weakness and difficulties with movement and activities. We can help you maintain your strength and function, allowing you to maximise your independence for longer, while having fun doing so!

We can visit you regularly, helping to keep you motivated with your exercises. Exercises will need to be tailored to each individual and progressed as needed. We use validated outcome measures to help measure your progress and aid goal setting.

We can help you with activities you enjoy, assist you with outdoor mobility, a regular fitness routine, completing weekly exercises as well as developing companionship.

The NHS recommends that older adults above 65 should exercise every day and complete strength, balance and flexibility exercises at least 2 days a week. Regular exercise can help you stay active for longer and has been shown to reduce your risk of major illness. It can be difficult to know what exercises to do and how much. We can guide you with this and find out what works best for you.

As we age we can lose confidence with our walking and start to do a little less each day. This can cause a gradual decline in our overall strength and function and everyday tasks can become more challenging. Care needs may increase and we can begin to lose our independence.

You may have had a sudden decline in your mobility, balance or strength. This may be due to a recent illness or injury, pain or medical condition and we can help get you back to full function again.

Physiotherapy is proven to help prevent functional decline. We can work with you to improve your strength, walking, and balance and will give you the time and care that you need to achieve this. We can help reduce your fear of falling and regain your confidence once more. By increasing your exercise tolerance and overall strength and balance, your physiotherapist can help you to walk further and be safer on your feet.

We can help improve or maintain your independence, reducing care needs as a result.

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Mobility

Our physiotherapists can provide a comprehensive multi-factorial falls assessment, detecting any balance or gait deficits and will devise a suitable treatment plan aimed at reducing the risk of falls. 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).

 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.  

Environmental assessment, mobility, balance and functional training are recommended by the World Health Organisation for falls prevention and management. Tolerance and overall strength and balance, your physiotherapist can help you to walk further and be safer on your feet.

We are able to recommend exercises for carers to supervise and can progress these as required.

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Falls assessment and management

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Elderly care

Our expert physiotherapists and occupational therapists can assess and advise on appropriate walking aids and equipment to help maintain independence and improve safety around the home.

We work closely with carers and families and are able to provide training in equipment and manual handling to carers.

We are able to update care plans as mobility improves and advise on suitable exercise programmes for carers to supervise.

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Seating assessment, Postural care and Equipment needs

If you have been unwell, had a fracture, injury, have recently come out of hospital, or have started to decline in your strength and movement, we can help you to regain strength and independence and get you stronger on your feet again.

We can work with carers and advise on a suitable exercise programme to help promote recovery and rehabilitation in your care home.

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Frailty and deconditioning post hospital stay

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Rehabilitation

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Elderly care

Chronic pain is a significant issue in older adults causing disability, increased care needs and costs and social isolation. It can affect quality of life and the ability to complete daily activities.  

Physiotherapy plays a crucial part in pain management for older adults. We can offer a gentle, personalised approach helping to reduce pain and enhance well-being. We use a holistic approach to help manage your condition, taking into accounts all contributing factors. We may liaise with other health professionals with your consent and can signpost you to other relevant services.

We may use a variety of techniques to help manage your pain such as gentle exercises or stretches, breathing techniques, pacing advice, education, manual therapy or gentle massage, activity and lifestyle modification.

Depending on the cause of your pain a variety of techniques may be used. There are many health conditions which can result in chronic and complex pain. Some of theses include: rheumatological conditions (such as rheumatoid arthritis), osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, previous fracture or injury, fibromyalgia, musculoskeletal conditions (such as back pain), neurodegenerative disorders (such as Parkinson’s Disease), peripheral vascular disease, peripheral neuropathy and many more.

Whatever the cause of your pain, we will work with you and your carers, using a gentle approach to help you manage your pain and your long term condition.

Physiotherapy can significantly improve the quality of life in older adults with arthritis.

You may have stiffness, swelling or pain surrounding one or more joints. Certain movements may have become more difficult and your walking and balance may be affected.

There are several types of arthritis with the main one being osteoarthritis. This is where the cartilage starts to roughen and break down, bony growths caused osteophytes can develop, and you may feel a grating sensation when you move the joint. Osteoarthritis can develop in any joint with the most common areas being the knees, hips, and hands.

There is no cure for arthritis and it can be managed with the right advice and exercise. Exercise is an important part of managing arthritis but sometimes it can be hard to know what exercise is right for you. Exercise and movement can help reduce your pain and symptoms while also improving muscle strength and reducing stiffness.

Your physiotherapist will assess your affected joint/s and surrounding muscle strength and flexibility as well as your walking and balance. They can provide a tailored exercise programme to help strengthen surrounding muscles and improve the capacity of the joint. Regular exercises can help to reduce pain and improve stiffness.

 In older adults with osteoporosis, physiotherapy can significantly help by strengthening bones and muscles.

Osteoporosis is a condition where your bones lose strength and weaken making it more likely to fracture a bone with a minor injury. Osteoporosis is more common in older people and can be a cause of falls. Your physiotherapist will look at your movements, walking and strength and will devise a suitable strengthening exercise programme to help strengthening your muscles and bones preventing further deterioration.