Get Westmead Home Safety Assessment

A home safety assessment is an important tool for home health care in verifying the safety of patients and their home environment, identifying and correcting deficiencies, and minimizing and preventing losses.

With the aim of reducing falls among older adults, this self-assessment consists of a home safety assesment checklist and solutions, illustrations of common fall hazards and solutions in ten indoor and outdoor areas of the home, assistive devices and other recommended products to prevent falls, and “how to” home ...

To identify hazards in the physical home environments of older adults at risk of falling.

A home safety assessment includes 3 parts: assessment of (1) commonly used areas inside and outside the home; (2) observation of the older person moving around the home environment; and, (3) fall risk and health status of the older person.

A safety assessment is the systematic collection of information on threatening family conditions and current, significant, and clearly observable threats to the safety of the child or youth. The purpose is to determine the degree to which a child or youth is likely to suffer maltreatment in the immediate future.

You'll start in a chair, stand up, and then walk for about 10 feet at your regular pace. Then you'll sit down again. Your health care provider will check how long it takes you to do this. If it takes you 12 seconds or more, it may mean you are at higher risk for a fall.

We developed a Japanese version of the Westmead Home Safety Assessment by partially modifying the original version ing to house structures and lifestyles in Japan and examined its inter-rater reliability and content validity.