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Clinics GRP Balance & Falls

Stay steady, mobile and confident

Assessment and rehabilitation for dizziness, instability, falls history, and confidence loss across clinic, home, community, and care settings.

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Clinics GRP clinician guiding an older adult through supported single-leg balance training.
About this service

Understand what is affecting steadiness and confidence

Balance and falls care looks beyond the fall itself to strength, gait, confidence, environment and other factors that may be increasing risk.

Clinical approach

Review the pattern. Address the contributing factors. Build safer movement with confidence.

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Who it suits

When balance and falls care may help

  • Older adults who feel less steady, have had near-falls, or want to stay confident on their feet
  • People returning to activity after illness, injury, or hospitalisation
  • Family members concerned about falls risk at home
  • Referrers seeking a practical falls-prevention and rehabilitation pathway

How care is delivered

What assessment and rehabilitation may include

  • Balance assessment, gait review, strength work, and falls-risk discussion
  • Vestibular screening where appropriate and progression into targeted rehabilitation
  • Home advice, program progression, and review over time
Plan and access

Balance care in the environment that matters

Assessment may occur in clinic, at home, in community settings or supported care depending on where risk and confidence concerns are most relevant.

Where care happens

Choose the setting that fits now

Continuity

Care can move between settings as mobility, confidence or support needs change.

Funding and access

Common ways to access care

  • Support at Home (SaH)
  • Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP)
  • Medicare
  • Private Health Insurance
  • NDIS
  • Self-funded

Reviewing progress

Progress includes confidence as well as balance

Balance, walking, falls or near-falls and confidence are reviewed together so improvements reflect safer participation in everyday life.

Common concerns

Early signs worth acting on

A fall is not the only reason to seek help; near-falls, unsteadiness and reduced confidence are useful early signals.

  • Falls, near-falls, unsteadiness, and reduced balance confidence
  • Fear of falling, changes in gait, and environmental risk
  • Strength, mobility, and balance decline affecting daily activity

First appointment

Your first balance assessment

The first assessment reviews falls history, walking, strength, balance confidence, environment and the person’s goals.

  1. The clinician reviews falls history, balance confidence, gait, strength, environment, and goals.
  2. The first plan may include balance rehabilitation, falls-risk advice, home or clinic follow-up, and related service recommendations.
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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about balance & falls

Do I need to have already fallen before I seek help?

No. Reduced confidence, near-falls, and visible balance decline are all good reasons to seek review early.

Can balance training be delivered at home?

Yes. Home visits can be useful when the main risks or confidence issues show up in the home environment.

How does this differ from vestibular care?

Falls and balance is the broader pathway. Some people with dizziness or vertigo may later be directed into vestibular-specific assessment.

Your next step

Talk with our team about the right care

A fall, near-fall, or loss of confidence is a good time to seek assessment rather than waiting for the problem to worsen.