Domestic Accidents: Older People

The National Health Service website has public information and advice on fall prevention. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy’s (CSP) Get up and go – a guide to staying steady is a 32-page guide for the public and patients on how to prevent falls, and was produced by Saga in partnership with the CSP and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.

To help healthcare systems support people living with frailty, NHS England has developed a RightCare frailty toolkit. The RightCare toolkit aims to support systems to understand the priorities in frailty care and the key actions to take. It provides a way to assess and benchmark current systems, in order to find opportunities for improvement.

NHS England’s Falls and Fragility Fractures RightCare Pathway defines the core components of an optimal service for people who have suffered from a fall or who are at risk of falls and fragility fractures. It recommends that the commissioners responsible for falls and fragility fractures for their population should work across the system to ensure that schemes to deliver the higher value interventions are in place.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has also recently published guidance in April 2025 on the assessment and prevention of falls in older people and in people aged 50 years old and over who are at higher risk. The guidance aims to reduce the risk and incidence of falls, and the associated distress, pain, injury, loss of confidence, loss of independence, and mortality.