UK based support team
Making prevention practical in adult social care
Our prevention services help local authorities identify risk earlier, reduce avoidable demand, and support independence before crisis happens. Designed around the real pressures facing adult social care, we make proactive prevention easier to implement, evidence-based and scalable in your communities.
We understand prevention can be difficult to deliver in practice, faced with rising demand, limited capacity, and pressure to prove impact. By using council's own care data, we help turn insight into earlier intervention and more targeted support.
Our two flexible prevention services are designed to address real prevention challenges, fit with existing pathways and offer practical, low-risk, high-impact solutions to delivering prevention at scale.
Autumn is a personalised, non-clinical wellbeing service designed to help support people to stay active, confident and independent. Autumn learns what’s normal for each person and identifies meaningful changes early before small issues become bigger problems.
Many people experience a gradual decline in activity, mobility and confidence long before a crisis occurs. Too often support begins only after needs have escalated and become more serious and costly.
Autumn helps identify meaningful changes in adults 65 + living independently, particularly those at risk of early frailty, falls or functional decline. Autumn learns what is normal for these individuals, intervenes earlier and helps delay or prevent escalation into formal care.
Using a simple activity tracker and mobile app, Autumn is designed for people 65 + older who are still independent who would benefit from a light touch prevention support. Autumn encourages them to maintain activity, confidence and routine for longer.
Autumn provides early detection with proportionate, status-based support and connection into existing pathways. By moving support earlier, Autumn helps reduce escalation, protect independence and support more sustainable use of resources.
Using local authorities' own personal alarm call and care service data, Hälo focuses on addressing the root causes of increasing care needs before they escalate. By demonstrating the prevention impact before financial commitment Hälo provides a tailored evidence-based business case prior to investment.
Hälo helps local authorities shift from reactive crisis management to proactive, data-led prevention. By combining advanced data analytics, human insight, and structured service co-design, Hälo identifies service users most at risk of care escalation and supports earlier intervention.
This approach enhances individual outcomes, reduces pressure on frontline teams, and unlocks sustainable financial savings across health and social care systems.
Hälo is a unique collaboration between PA Consulting and Taking Care and provides leading industry expertise and practical insight.
Hälo follows a three-phase approach, with clear Go/No-Go decision points built in at each stage. Progression is evidence-based, reducing risk and ensuring decisions are guided by real-world results.
The service includes:
Hälo helps local authorities identify opportunities to reduce demand, improve outcomes and target resources where they will have the greatest impact. With benefits including:
Understand how Hälo helps councils safely test a data-driven prevention approach.