Healthspan
Mobility and independence
Strength and balance decline predictably, and the decline is measurable years before it changes what someone can do. This is the area where Monarch has the most direct experience, because it is what the home services have been doing for years, and where an intervention has the clearest effect on the thing people actually care about: staying in their own home.
What the evidence supports, and what it does not
This section is being written by our clinicians, and it will say plainly where the science is solid, where it is contested, and where we are deliberately cautious. We would rather leave it blank than fill it with something nobody has checked.
What happens here
The approach is the same in every area: establish where you are, change something on a cadence, then measure again to find out whether it worked. In mobility and independence that work is organised into the programmes below.
Frailty Prevention
Strength, mobility and balance — the practical basis of independence.
What this involvesFunctional Assessments
Direct measurement of what you can actually do, tracked over time.
What this involves
Daily Living Assessment (Lawton IADL + Katz ADL)
A 14 question functional check covering the daily tasks that matter most for staying safe at home. It runs in your browser, takes about 10 minutes, and nothing you enter is stored or sent to us.
Where to go next
The other areas we work on