{ "schema": "https://solvinghealth.com/schemas/agent-manifest-v1", "name": "FallRisks", "url": "https://fallrisks.com", "updated": "2026-10-05", "summary": "The CDC STEADI 12-question fall-risk checklist, scored on the device, a 20-second phone walk test, and practice conversations for families after a fall. No login, and nothing is sent: a person can choose to save the score in this browser, on this device only. Part of the SolvingHealth care network.", "publisher": { "name": "SolvingHealth", "url": "https://solvinghealth.com" }, "audience": [ "family-caregiver", "older-adult", "clinician" ], "jobs_to_be_done": [ "Know a parent's fall risk before something happens, not after", "Check whether a loved one's walking is actually getting worse", "Get the exact next step after a score at or above the CDC cut point", "Practice the hard conversation after a fall: with the parent, and with their doctor", "Pull evidence-based cutoffs and exercise dosing for a clinical fall-risk workup" ], "actions": [ { "id": "steadi_screener", "label": "CDC STEADI 12-question fall-risk checklist (Yes/No, scored 0-14; 4 or more = may be at risk), on the homepage", "url": "https://fallrisks.com/", "auth": "none", "uploads_data": false, "safe_to_hand_to_user": true }, { "id": "steadi_checklist_page", "label": "The same CDC checklist on its own page: printable, no analytics, accepts a gait_check from healthgait.com as context", "url": "https://fallrisks.com/screener", "auth": "none", "uploads_data": false, "safe_to_hand_to_user": true }, { "id": "practice_the_talk", "label": "Practice the talk after a fall: 3 scripted conversations (a parent who hid a fall, a parent and the cane, the doctor visit) with an in-browser phrase-checker; not an AI, nothing sent", "url": "https://fallrisks.com/talk", "auth": "none", "uploads_data": false, "safe_to_hand_to_user": true }, { "id": "walk_test", "label": "20-second phone walk test (on-device motion sensor)", "url": "https://fallrisks.com/walk-test", "auth": "none", "uploads_data": false, "safe_to_hand_to_user": true }, { "id": "home_safety_checklist", "label": "Room-by-room home safety assessment (46 items, 6 rooms)", "url": "https://fallrisks.com/assessment", "auth": "none", "uploads_data": false, "safe_to_hand_to_user": true }, { "id": "clinical_reference", "label": "Clinical reference: cutoffs and evidence-based exercise dosing", "url": "https://fallrisks.com/clinical", "auth": "none", "uploads_data": false, "safe_to_hand_to_user": true }, { "id": "save_on_this_device", "label": "Save the checklist score and date in this browser, on fallrisks.com only (optional; nothing is sent to a server, other sites cannot see it)", "url": "https://fallrisks.com/", "auth": "none", "uploads_data": false, "safe_to_hand_to_user": true, "agent_may_submit": false }, { "id": "medication_safety", "label": "Medicines linked to falls, with a printable list to bring to a pharmacist (not a reason to stop a medicine alone)", "url": "https://fallrisks.com/medication-safety", "auth": "none", "uploads_data": false, "safe_to_hand_to_user": true }, { "id": "resources", "label": "Evidence-based programs (Otago, Tai Chi, A Matter of Balance) and home-modification funding sources", "url": "https://fallrisks.com/resources", "auth": "none", "uploads_data": false, "safe_to_hand_to_user": true } ], "facts": { "falls_per_year_65plus": "Over 14 million, or 1 in 4 adults 65+, report a fall each year; about 4.5 million emergency department visits for older adult falls and over 43,000 deaths in 2024, the leading cause of injury death at 65+; the age-adjusted fall death rate rose 21%, from 64.7 to 78.4 per 100,000, between 2018 and 2024; falls are among the costliest injuries in older adults (CDC Older Adult Fall Prevention pages, read 2026-10-01)", "fall_rate_with_intervention": "Exercise programs: about 48 of every 100 people fell within a year without one vs about 41 with one; 23% fewer falls and 15% fewer fallers (Cochrane 2019, Sherrington et al., CD012424)", "medication_related_falls": "CDC STEADI lists medicines linked to falls (sedative-hypnotics, benzodiazepines, antidepressants, antipsychotics, opioids, anticonvulsants, anticholinergics, antihistamines, muscle relaxants, blood-pressure medicines). Psychotropic withdrawal cut the rate of falls 66% in one 93-person RCT but was hard to sustain (Campbell et al., J Am Geriatr Soc 1999); a GP prescribing-review program lowered the odds of a fall 39% (Pit et al., Med J Aust 2007); medication review on its own did not reduce fallers in pooled trials (Seppala et al., Age Ageing 2022)", "exercise_effect": "Exercise: 23% fewer falls, 15% fewer fallers (Cochrane 2019); balance-challenging programs with more than 3 h/week of exercise: 39% fewer falls (Sherrington et al., BJSM 2017); tai chi: 20% fewer fallers across 8 trials (Cochrane 2019); tai ji quan vs conventional mixed exercise: 31% fewer falls in one 670-person RCT (Li et al., JAMA IM 2018)", "screener_basis": "CDC STEADI 'Stay Independent' checklist: 12 Yes/No statements, points as CDC prints them (2,2, then ten at 1), total 0-14; 4 or more = may be at risk for falling. Validated by Rubenstein et al., J Safety Res 2011;42(6):493-499. Source checked 2026-09-29: https://www.cdc.gov/steadi/pdf/steadi-brochure-stayindependent-508.pdf", "nature": "screening signal, not a diagnosis", "hip_fracture": "Nearly 319,000 older people are hospitalized for hip fractures each year; 83% of hip-fracture deaths were caused by falls (CDC falls facts, read 2026-10-01)", "one_in_ten": "1 in 10 falls leads to an injury that limits activity for a day or more or sends the person for care (CDC falls facts, read 2026-10-01)" }, "llms_txt": "https://fallrisks.com/llms.txt", "machine_readable_claims": "MedicalWebPage + FAQPage JSON-LD in the homepage head", "review_model": "FallRisks itself only screens — a self-report questionnaire and an on-device motion test. It does not diagnose, bill, or issue medical records, so nothing here needs a clinician's signature. It does not route anyone to paid care: a higher-risk result points to co-op.care's needs assessment (no account), which is not a caregiver match — co-op.care is forming in Boulder and its paid care has not started. It makes no HSA/FSA promise: eligibility is decided case by case (IRS IR-2024-65), and a Letter of Medical Necessity documents a need; it does not unlock funds. Coverage questions go to comfortcard.org/covered, which can answer no.", "pollen": { "schema": "estate-pollen/1", "sends": [ { "kind": "fall_screener", "from": [ "https://fallrisks.com/", "https://fallrisks.com/screener" ], "to": [ "https://healthgait.com/check", "https://fallprevention.help/visit", "https://familycaregive.com/plan/", "https://comfortcard.org/family" ], "data": [ "score", "max", "band" ], "note": "max is 14; band lower (0-3) / moderate (4-7) / higher (8-14). CDC's one cut point is 4; the split at 8 is this site's own and not validated. By click only; also downloadable as a file." } ], "accepts": [ { "kind": "gait_check", "at": "https://fallrisks.com/screener", "uses": "shows walking speed (and band, gait age) beside the checklist result as context; nothing is stored" } ], "receive_at": "https://fallrisks.com/screener" }, "hand_offs": [ { "need": "measure the walking itself (a speed trend, not a checklist)", "to": "https://healthgait.com/check", "carries": "fall_screener {score, max, band}, by the person's click" }, { "need": "take the result to the doctor visit", "to": "https://fallprevention.help/visit", "carries": "fall_screener, by click" }, { "need": "plan the family's next steps after a higher result", "to": "https://familycaregive.com/plan/", "carries": "fall_screener, by click" }, { "need": "keep it with the family file on the device", "to": "https://comfortcard.org/family", "carries": "fall_screener, by click" }, { "need": "say, ahead of a fall, what a parent would want", "to": "https://caregoals.com/conversation", "carries": "nothing" }, { "need": "a higher result and the question of what support at home would fit", "to": "https://co-op.care/assess", "carries": "nothing; a needs assessment, not a caregiver match" }, { "need": "see the walk on camera (cadence, symmetry, rhythm; nothing uploaded)", "to": "https://motionsole.com/live", "carries": "nothing; a link in the footer of every page" }, { "need": "joint pain that changes the walk: mechanical or inflammatory, which specialist", "to": "https://arthritisrisk.com/", "carries": "nothing; a link in the footer of every page" } ], "siblings_by_need": { "walking": "healthgait.com", "after_a_fall_at_the_doctor": "fallprevention.help", "family_plan": "familycaregive.com", "family_file": "comfortcard.org", "care_wishes": "caregoals.com", "support_at_home": "co-op.care", "gait_on_camera": "motionsole.com", "joint_pain": "arthritisrisk.com" }, "device": { "installable": true, "manifest": "https://fallrisks.com/manifest.json", "service_worker": "https://fallrisks.com/sw.js", "works_offline_after_first_visit": [ "/", "/screener", "/walk-test", "/talk", "/assessment" ], "stores": "nothing a person answers leaves the device; the service worker only keeps the site's own files" }, "words": { "say": [ "no account", "nothing is sent", "a screening signal, not a diagnosis", "988 before anything else in a crisis; 911 for an injury" ], "never": [ "free (as an offer)", "diagnosis", "prediction", "a price", "a caregiver match", "a name where a role belongs" ] } }