Senior Home Connection
Personalised Exercise Physiology, practical sensory resources and everyday ideas that help older people remain involved in the things that matter to them.
Practical support
Choose where you would like to start
Choose personalised clinical movement support for one person, activity cards for everyday connection, or practical tip sheets that are easy to share with a care team.
Personalised clinical support
A personalised printed exercise program created around one person's health, mobility, balance, falls risk, pain, strength and everyday goals.
Movement selected for the individual.
Robyn reviews the required assessment information before exercises are selected.
Practical everyday resource
40 practical activity ideas using movement, rhythm, sensory experiences, familiar objects, music, conversation and connection.
Pick up one card and try an idea.
Designed for ordinary enjoyable moments together, not only for times when somebody is distressed.
Easy to share with a team
Practical co regulation ideas that can be shared one at a time during handover, care team meetings or everyday support discussions.
One useful idea at a time.
Keep relevant sheets where workers can easily find them and use them alongside current support planning.
Where this began
I began my Exercise Physiology career working in a dementia wing, and it was there that I discovered how powerful movement and sensory experiences could be.
I learnt very quickly that movement was about much more than completing a list of exercises. Music, rhythm, familiar objects, sensory experiences and simple opportunities to move could create moments of connection that felt completely different to a traditional exercise session.
Those early experiences have stayed with me throughout my career. They are a big part of why Senior Home Connection brings together personalised Exercise Physiology, sensory experiences, meaningful activity and human connection.
Movement can have a purpose without feeling like an exercise session.
For aged care, home care and support organisations
Start with something your team can use straight away. If you later want broader support across your service, Meaningful Moments is there as the next step.
Practical activity ideas
Give workers practical ideas they can reach for during ordinary support visits.
View the cardsEasy to share across a team
Share one practical idea at handover, use them during care team meetings or keep relevant sheets with everyday support resources.
View the tip sheets
Broader organisational support
Help teams strengthen choice, participation, contribution and connection within everyday care.
The focus is practical implementation rather than giving workers another course to complete.
Explore Meaningful MomentsOne idea across the whole site
A useful activity is not useful just because it is on a card or in a program. The person's interests, abilities, communication and response should guide what happens next.
Pay attention to the person, their response and what seems meaningful to them.
Create an opportunity without turning participation into another demand.
Change, simplify or stop when the original idea does not suit.
Meaning can be ordinary
Walking outside to look at the garden, reaching for something familiar, moving with music, helping prepare a drink or sitting together with something interesting to talk about can all have value.
Senior Home Connection is built around helping people notice more of these opportunities without forcing every moment to become therapy.
Robyn Papworth
Robyn is an ESSA registered Exercise Physiologist with a professional background including falls prevention, balance, mobility, strength, flexibility and everyday independence.
Her work has also developed around sensory experiences, regulation, communication and finding meaningful ways for people to remain connected with everyday life.
Contact RobynFrom the Senior Home Connection blog
Practical thoughts about movement, ageing, falls prevention, connection, confidence and supporting someone to keep participating in everyday life.
Choice, connection and participation
It can be hard when someone you love keeps saying no to help, movement, activities or leaving the house. Sometimes the most useful response is not to push harder, but to slow down and work out what the no may be telling you.
Falls prevention and confidence
Falls prevention is not simply about telling someone to sit down or encouraging them to have a go. Safety, confidence, strength, balance and the person's individual risks all need to be considered together.
Family support and participation
When you care about someone, it is natural to want to make life safer and easier for them. The difficult part can be knowing when to help and when to leave room for them to keep doing things in their own way.
Where would you like to start?
For an individual
Personalised clinical movement support created around one older adult.
Explore Exercise PhysiologyPractical resources
Choose sensory activity cards or easy to share co regulation tip sheets.
Explore Co Regulation ResourcesFor organisations
Broader support for services wanting to strengthen meaningful participation during everyday care.
Explore Meaningful MomentsNot sure?
You do not need to work out which service is right before getting in touch.
Contact Robyn