Staying healthy at home is a good way of maintaining your independence and sense of wellbeing. Whether you have care needs, a disability, or need support into older age, it is important that people can continue to lead active and fulfilling lives, while remaining safe and secure at home.

Why does this matter?

Living safe and well at home is important for ensuring independence and helping to reduce hospital admissions. Falls at home are a major reason for older people being admitted to hospital, and in many cases can be avoided through home-based strength and balance exercises, as well as small home adaptations.

Having access to the right services, support, equipment, and technology, at the right time, can help us all to live and age well. Living in a home that meets your needs is also important in terms of ensuring warmth, accessibility and mobility.

Help and support for living safe and well at home

• Warrington Talking Points connect people, places and communities - no appointment is needed, just come along to a session for friendly advice and support
• Carecall is our 24-hour alarm service. It ensures people are able to get assistance as quickly as possible in case of an emergency at home. Call 01925 458000 for more information
• AskSARA is an online self-help guide providing expert advice and information on products and equipment to support people at home and in the community. 
• Livewire’s Lifestyles team can provide a falls risk assessment and strength-based exercises to prevent falls. Email lifestyles@livewirewarrington.org.uk or call 0300 003 0818
• Warrington Voluntary Action’s Good Neighbours scheme can provide support if you need a bit of help with your shopping, picking up prescriptions, or one-off tasks in the home or garden
• Warrington Disability Partnership can support with walking aids and other technology to support independence
• Warrington Home Improvement Agency provides a handyman service to help with minor home improvements - call 01925 246812 for more information
• Adapt My Home is a service run by Foundations and includes general information about Disabled Facilities Grants and home adaptations 
• Urgent Community Response Service supports people to remain at home, such as following recovery after a fall, accident or acute operation. The service operates 8am - 8pm and is available for people 18 and over who are registered with a Warrington GP practice. 
• Assisted Living is the council's occupational therapy service. The team can provide a home assessment for individuals and carers with complex needs. 

Self-help resources and information

• Preventing a fall information from the NHS website
• Watch this short video demonstrating the super six falls prevention exercises, which have been proven to reduce your risk of falls in later life

NHS health and care app library

The NHS’s free digital app library includes apps to help support your health and wellbeing. The KOKU app can be accessed in this library, which is a user-friendly falls prevention app that can be used on iPads.