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Home Safety Score

Thirty-five questions across seven areas of the home, covering the fall hazards that appear in essentially every published checklist. You get a score, a room-by-room breakdown and a prioritised list of what to change first — and you can save a baseline and come back to see how far the house has moved.

About ten minutes, walking around

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What these tools will and won't tell you

There is a particular kind of dishonesty common in this subject area: the quiz that asks a dozen questions and hands back a percentage chance of falling. It looks authoritative and it is invented. Estimating an individual's fall risk requires validated clinical instruments and a great deal of information a web page does not have.

So our tools measure what they can actually measure. The Home Safety Score reports the share of well-established home hazards you have addressed — a real, checkable quantity, and one most people have never looked at systematically. What it will never do is tell you your home is safe, or put a number on the likelihood of a fall.

It is also honest about the limits of its own subject. The strongest predictors of a fall have little to do with the building: whether someone has fallen before, how steady they are on their feet, what medicines they take, whether standing up makes them dizzy, how well they see. Our tool asks about those and will point you towards a doctor even when the house scores well — because a spotless home with a recent fall behind it is not a good news story.

Your answers stay on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, and if you give us an email address for a printable plan we receive your name and email and nothing else.

Educational guidance, not medical advice. If there has been a fall, or walking has started to feel unsteady, that is a conversation to have with a doctor.