The OT’s Guide to Smarter Care Packages: How Data from Lilli Can Transform Prevention and Care Assessments
Occupational therapists (OTs) play a critical role in helping people maintain independence and quality of life. Yet, assessing care needs accurately, and proactively, has always been a challenge. Traditionally, OTs rely on periodic visits, self-reported information and observational assessments, which can miss subtle changes in a person’s health or daily routine.
Lilli’s home care monitoring technology is designed to provide real-time, actionable insights into daily living patterns. From movement and sleep to eating and bathroom use, Lilli collects the data that can help OTs design smarter care packages, prevent crises and improve outcomes.
This guide dives into how OTs can harness Lilli to transform both care assessment and preventive strategies - empowering clients to live independently for longer while supporting professional decision-making.
Why Smarter Care Packages Matter
Traditional care packages are often reactive, responding to a crisis after it occurs. This approach can lead to unnecessary hospital admissions, increased stress for clients and families and higher costs for care providers.
Smarter, data-driven care packages allow OTs to anticipate needs before they become urgent. By integrating insights from technology like Lilli, OTs can identify patterns that indicate changes in health or lifestyle, enabling early interventions that protect wellbeing, safety and independence.
How Lilli Data Helps OTs Assess Care Packages
Lilli collects subtle yet meaningful information about daily routines. This allows OTs to make more informed decisions when assessing care needs. Key areas include:
- Activity Patterns: Detecting changes in mobility, like reduced movement around the home. Adjust care hours, introduce mobility aids, or recommend physiotherapy interventions.
- Daily Routines: Track changes in eating, hydration or sleep patterns. Early detection of these shifts can prevent malnutrition, dehydration, or sleep-related health risks. Evaluating independence can aid in assessing care packages.
- Environmental Insights: Identify potential health hazards, such as dangerously low temperatures in winter or high temperatures in summer, enabling quick intervention and solution.
Using Data for Prevention, Not Just Reaction
Early detection of subtle changes can prevent hospital admissions, falls and other health crises. OTs armed with Lilli insights can intervene before issues escalate, making care packages not only responsive but proactive.
Clare Cochrane, Director of Brand and Marketing at the Royal College of Occupational Therapists. says:
"This is a really exciting opportunity to support our members to become more confident using technology as part of their day-to-day practice. The work that Lilli is doing aligns with our workforce strategy, which includes reviewing the use of tech-enabled care within occupational therapy.”
Best Practices for Integrating Tech into OT Care Planning
Occupational Therapists can follow a simple framework to make the most of monitoring data:
- Review baseline data from Lilli to understand the client’s level of independence and needs.
- Compare with care goals and personal preferences to align support with what matters most to the client.
- Adjust care packages proactively, from support schedules to assistive technology recommendations.
- Monitor outcomes and refine regularly, using Lilli’s continuous data to track improvements and adapt interventions.
Influencing Adoption and Building Trust
OTs are some of the most important advisors when it comes to care. By demonstrating how data-driven insights improve outcomes, OTs can encourage clients, families and commissioners to adopt technology confidently, completely transforming their approach to care for the better.
Kelly Hudson, Chief Executive Officer of Lilli, says:
"Occupational therapists provide life-changing value to the people they support and the whole health and care system. But as demand and resource pressures grow across health and care, it’s critical they get the right tools and technology to continue to be able to provide this essential care.
At Lilli, we have seen the significant human and economic benefits of using home monitoring technology to identify early signs of health decline and support independent living and so we are delighted to now be bringing together our shared expertise and insight with RCOT to explore how technology can meaningfully enhance the future of OT-led care."
Smarter care packages powered by Lilli data allow occupational therapists to create accurate care packages, prevent crises, promote independence and improve care outcomes. By leveraging real-time insights, OTs can design care that is truly effective and proactive, with perfectly tailored care packages and anticipating needs rather than just responding to them.
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Occupational therapists can now harness remote monitoring for seniors to design preventive, personalised care packages with Lilli technology, improving both independence and long-term wellbeing.