East Lindsey Primary Care Network (ELPCN) Occupational Therapy Service is a non-urgent service supporting adults at risk of - or experiencing - falls and frailty.
Falls (including near misses) and frailty significantly impact a person’s well-being. This can affect their ability to complete activities of daily living.
Our Occupational Therapists provide proactive assessment and early intervention with the aim of promoting positive and healthy ageing. Patients will receive specialist comprehensive Occupational Therapy input face to face in surgeries, at home and in care homes.
Assessments include:
- Activities of daily living – for example personal care, domestic activities, leisure pursuits
- Falls – Including risk assessment within the home environment
- Strength and Balance
- Frailty – Including assessment to reduce the risk of frailty
- Walking – including the ability to stand from furniture such as the bed, chair and toilet
- Memory and concentration
Interventions may include:
- Proactive health promotion, including strategies to live well and avoid the onset of frailty
- Falls and environmental modification advice
- Strength and balance exercises
- Strategies to self-manage health conditions and associated symptoms
- Equipment and mobility aid provision
- Onward referral to other appropriate services as needed
Patients can request an Occupational Therapy assessment by contacting their GP surgery.
Find out more about how Occupational therapists are transforming patient care in Lincolnshire's GP practices. - Lincolnshire ICB
Occupational Therapists Katie Campion and Rosie Mincher, alongside Occupational Therapy Care Coordinator Sarah Blyth have recently delivered information afternoons in three local care homes to provide information to residents, relatives, and care home staff about preventing falls.
The events aimed to highlight the Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) best practice guidelines for promoting physical activity, strength, balance, and preventing falls in care homes. Care home residents benefited from mobility aid checks (new walking aids and ferrules were ordered when needed), advice on supportive footwear, advice on exercises and on call bell systems.
Relatives of care home residents who attended were able to discuss falls prevention strategies. General advice and support was also provided on a wide range of topics from communicating with people with dementia symptoms to carers wellbeing and mental health.
The events provided opportunities to engage in discussions with care home staff and activity coordinators about falls prevention. We provided information on how to reduce falls risks for residents, discussed the importance of assisting residents to exercise regularly to maintain strength and balance and demonstrated how to check mobility aids are safe and suitable for use. We also gave details about free online training available to care home staff from the React to Falls website.
Rosie Mincher,
Occupational Therapist June 2025
OT Week 2025 (3-9 November)
Right Support, Right Time: Unlocking the Power of OT
Occupational therapy is a vital part of the solution to today’s health, education and social care challenges. This campaign puts occupational therapy at the heart of a shift towards prevention-focused care – helping people earlier, easing pressure across services and improving outcomes.
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