Sensor Based Falls Detection and Prevention (SBFPD)

Sensor Based Falls Detection and Prevention technology allows your residents or service users to have the confidence that you can react quickly if they have a fall. There is funding available in some ICB areas for the implementation of these technologies

Falls and the resulting harm caused by falls can significantly impact a person's well-being and mobility. Within care settings, older people are three times more likely to fall than older people living in their own homes with more serious consequences.

Many factors can contribute to the heightened risk of falls in care homes, such as physical frailty and inactivity, the presence of long-term conditions, taking multiple medications and the unfamiliarity of new surroundings. However, in many cases it is recognised that taking the right steps at the right time can support and reduce the risk of falls. This can include forms of acoustic and/or activity monitoring.

As part of Digital Transformation Fund (DTF) there is funding available for allocation to CQC registered homes to support Care Homes to introduce falls technologies to help identify and prevent falls and to engage in small pilots of other technology enabled care (TEC).