To take the SAFE at Home (SM) assessment, click here or fill out the form below.
Standardized
Assessments
For the
Elderly
SAFE At Home (SM) promotes simple, widely used, and clinically proven tools to help assess risk categories for successful aging in place.
What the experts use
Home health clinicians and geriatric specialists, who are the experts in aging in place, often use standardized assessments to evaluate elderly persons across a number of different categories. In fact, there are a lot of well-established tools that are frequently used. A subset of these tools are simple question-based assessments that the average layperson can effectively execute.
SAFE at Home (SM) promotes a number of these tools across different risk categories for family members to use to understand and manage aging in place related matters. The great things about using these tools is that most provide quantitative metrics that are the basis of meaningful discussions about the risk category. The score can also be recorded for tracking and trending purposes to see how the aging in place journey is progressing.
Risk categories
Falls
Cognition
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs)
Geriatric Depression
Nutrition
Caregiver Burnout
Home Safety
The benefits of using quantitative data
The health regimen of a senior is usually a very personal matter. As such, discussing changes and/or seeking help can be difficult when there is a reluctance or trepidation for change. The SAFE at Home (SM) assessments yield data that can be used as the basis of an unbiased discussion. Below is an example of how data can be used to drive actions leading to better health outcomes.
Getting started
It is not uncommon for family members to look at the SAFE at Home (SM) assessments and review them initially without their loved one. The reason is because this familiarizes them with the types of criteria used to make assessments. Although involvement with the senior is required for some of the assessments, there are others that can be executed by a caregiver or family member. The slides below outline the assessments that comprise SAFE at Home (SM) program.
Safe at Home Intro - for web.pptxAccessing SAFE at Home Online
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