How to check a home for fall risks with CareLogger
Walk the home with Family → Home Safety, room by room, marking each item Safe, Needs work or N/A, then run the Fall Risk Assessment, a short set of yes-or-no questions. Together they give you a list of things to fix at home and a starting point for a conversation with the doctor.
Neither one is a diagnosis. The checklist shows what in the home could be safer; the assessment gives a Low, Medium or High Risk result to raise with the doctor, and to repeat later to see whether anything has changed.
Walk the home with the checklist
Home Safety is under Family → Safety & Assessment. It goes room by room: Bathroom, Bedroom, Hallway & Living, Kitchen and Entrance. Mark each item Safe, Needs work or N/A; anything you have not reached yet stays Not checked, and the count of items checked shows how far you have got. There is no score.
Walk it at the time of day your parent actually moves around. A hallway that is fine at noon can be a different place at three in the morning, on the way to the bathroom.
- Family → Home Safety
- Open a room: Bathroom, Bedroom, Hallway & Living, Kitchen, Entrance
- Mark each item Safe, Needs work or N/A
Turn Needs work into jobs
Every Needs work item is a small job: a handrail, a lamp, a loose rug. Put the ones you will not do today into a handoff note under Pending / To-do, so whoever is there next can see what is still open, and come back and mark the item Safe once it is done.
Some changes need more than a screwdriver. Where an item involves building work or equipment, ask the doctor or your local long-term care service what fits your parent before buying anything.
Run the Fall Risk Assessment
Fall Risk Assessment sits next to Home Safety. Tap Start Assessment, answer the yes-or-no questions, and Submit Assessment. The result is Low Risk, Medium Risk or High Risk, and it also shows on Today. Assessment History keeps every result, and Reassess runs it again.
Repeat it when something changes, such as after a fall, an illness or a new medicine, so the history shows a direction rather than a single moment. Bring the result to the doctor; it is a prompt for that conversation, not its conclusion.
Record a fall when one happens
If someone has fallen and is hurt or cannot get up, call your local emergency number first; the app is for afterwards. Once things are calm, add a New Care Record from the + on Today: what happened, the Record time and, if it helps, Photos (optional).
Mention any fall to the doctor, even one without an injury. A record made on the day is easier to share accurately than a recollection weeks later, and it also appears in the Doctor Report for that period.
Make sure everyone knows the plan
Write the changes you agreed on into a handoff note, and keep Emergency & Contacts in Important Info current, so a caregiver or sibling who finds your parent on the floor knows who to call after the emergency number.
CareLogger is an app for keeping and sharing care records. It is not a medical device: it does not diagnose, treat or replace professional advice. Take clinical questions to the doctor, pharmacist or care team, and in an emergency call your local emergency number first.
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