Action Falls for Domiciliary Care

NCT07516054 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: FMHS 06-1025
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 65
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Action Falls is a programme that helps older adults avoid falls and injuries. It finds out why someone might fall and suggests ways to help, like checking their medication and encouraging them to stay active. It was created to try and prevent falls in care homes. It includes training for care home staff, a manual, and a checklist of what to look out for and what to do. Home care providers, local care groups, and older adults who live in the community think Action Falls could be useful too, to help reduce the number of falls in older adults who live at home. The investigators have identified that the programme could be particularly useful for older people who are supported by home care services. The goal of this project is to develop ways to deliver and keep the programme running for older people supported by home care services. A future study will then try it out and see it helps people manage falls in home care. The first part aims to plan and make changes to the current Action Falls programme to make sure it is suitable for use in home care settings. The investigators will do this by

• observing what happens on home care visits
• asking people who are supported by and who deliver home care how the programme needs to be changed. In a future study the investigators will then deliver the programme across home care in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire and evaluate how well it has worked. The study will focus on coastal and rural areas.

Conditions

Falls

Keywords

falls; implementation; independence; social care; home care

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Types of programme adaptations using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)

  Adaptations to the Action Falls Programme will be coded to the CFIR. Each adaption will be classified to the relevant CFIR domain: innovation, inner setting, outer setting, individuals, process. The number and classification of adaptation types will be recorded.

  18 months

Study Arms (1)

domiciliary care

Domiciliary care settings in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Observations: staff working in one reablement service in Nottinghamshire County Council and one in Lincolnshire County Council and one private provider in each site. Interviews: older people receiving domiciliary care and their relatives from the sites in the observations, social care staff from County Council and one in Lincolnshire County Council Co-design workshops: older people receiving domiciliary care and their relatives from the sites in the observations, and social care staff from Nottinghamshire County Council and Lincolnshire County Council and BelleVie Care

You may qualify if:

• Observations:
• Domiciliary care workers working in the settings and localities in the sample and providing support to older people
• Social care practitioners working in the settings and localities in the sample
• Interviews:
• Older people (65 years and over) supported by domiciliary care and providing support to older people
• Relatives of older people supported by domiciliary care
• Social care practitioners
• Owners of domiciliary care
• Commissioners and senior decision makers in Lincolnshire County Council and Nottinghamshire County Council
• Co-design workshops:
• Domiciliary care workers working in BelleVie Care
• Older people (65 years and over) supported by domiciliary care
• Relatives of older people supported by domiciliary care
• Social care practitioners
• Owners of domiciliary care

You may not qualify if:

• Lack of capacity to give informed consent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: collaborator
• University of Nottingham: lead
• University of Lincoln: collaborator
• University of Manchester: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Nottingham

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG7 2UH, United Kingdom

RECRUITING

Central Study Contacts

Katie Robinson, PhD

CONTACT

447966774679; katie.robinson@nottingham.ac.uk

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: OTHER
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 17, 2026
• First Posted: April 7, 2026
• Study Start: July 15, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 1, 2028
• Study Completion (Estimated): June 1, 2028
• Last Updated: July 24, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-03

Locations

GB (1)