Content originally from Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System
Improving Your Strength and Balance and Preventing Falls
We’re looking at how to improve strength and balance with some tips on how to prevent falls at home. To help us stay active and able, we need to care for ourselves in a different way as our body changes.
If you know someone who’s had a fall, you’ll have noticed how they worry about it happening again and how it could affect their independence.
Our ability to balance deteriorates as we age and is a common problem among seniors. As our bodies change, different exercises can help to keep us strong and steady. Regardless of age, building simple exercises into your daily routine will make completing every day jobs easier and help to keep you mobile and confident so that you can continue to get out and about and enjoy your life now, and in your years to come.
Active Essex have created a guide to help improve your strength and balance whilst at home. This includes tips to help build on your daily wellbeing and alternative ways to incorporate activity into your daily life. This guide can be downloaded by clicking the button below.
Preventing falls
There are easy ways we can reduce our risk of having a fall; like making simple changes to the home and exercising to improve health.
Did you know there are local services and exercise courses for older people who’ve had a fall or feel unsteady on their feet? Click on the links below for how to access in your local area.
Falls can have a significant impact on people’s health. Please remember to discuss any falls you have had with a healthcare professional and say if it is having any impact on your health and wellbeing! You can ask for a Falls assessment. The NHS is here to help you.
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