With America's 65+ population doubling in the decades ahead and hospital-at-home programs expected to reach almost $23 billion in the next five years, the home itself has become a critical but overlooked setting of care. Falls at home are the leading cause of injury, death, and costly hospital readmissions among older adults—yet traditional, in-person assessments cannot keep pace with the exploding growth of the older adult population.
"DwellSafe was created to bring clinical-level home-safety assessments into every home—supporting families who want safer aging and health systems striving to reduce preventable readmissions," said James Taylor, MD, MPH, Co-Founder, and CEO of DwellSafe. "Now we can connect a clinical team into any home, anytime—breaking down barriers to care and tackling the risks that drive poor outcomes. It's like putting a clinician in your pocket."
The DwellSafe Platform: Scalable, Clinician-Reviewed Prevention
The DwellSafe platform brings hospital-grade safety assessments into any home—instantly and at scale. By combining AI with precision-matched clinicians, DwellSafe delivers actionable insights that help families, providers, and health systems prevent falls and improve recovery.
- Virtual Access, Anywhere: Remote home scans and clinician-reviewed assessments completed entirely through a smartphone, no in-person visit required.
- Proactive Prevention: Personalized home scans and safety plans, guided by clinicians matched to each patient's unique needs and home environment.
- Actionable Guidance: Take action with 1:1 clinician support and approved local resources to make updates with ease.
- Data-Driven Precision: Each scan generates structured home and risk data, unlocking insights into social determinants of health (SDOH), population health, and predictive risk information to improve care quality and outcomes.
- Clinical Integration: Embeds seamlessly into healthcare workflows, with clinician-reviewed scans flowing into care plans and discharge planning.
Using just a smartphone, families, caregivers, and patients can scan the home, answer adaptive health questions, and receive a personalized, clinician-reviewed safety plan with clear next steps.
Healthcare Integration: Safer Transitions of Care
For hospitals, clinics, and care teams, DwellSafe provides a new way to improve outcomes: reducing readmissions, streamlining discharge planning, and addressing SDOH by uncovering risks at home that often go unseen.
One Health, a leading primary-care clinic in Charlotte, N.C., has begun using DwellSafe with its highest-risk patients as they transition from hospital or skilled-nursing stays to home, where falls are a leading cause of costly readmissions.
"DwellSafe gives our team a clinically reviewed window into a patient's home," said Mark Collins, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at One Health. "The platform is unlike anything we've seen before, and it aligns with our whole-person care mission. We're starting with our highest-risk patients, but we see this becoming a value-driver across primary care for our Medicare population and those at moderate to high risk of falls."
In addition to healthcare providers, DwellSafe is also expanding through national partnerships, including a National Council on Aging grant enabling EMS responders in North Carolina, a collaboration with Rebuilding Together to assist low-income homeowners and veterans, and a new relationship with Lowe's to broaden access to home-safety solutions nationwide.
Meeting the Most Critical Need
Falls in the home are the leading cause of injury-related death for older adults and drive more than $50 billion in U.S. medical costs each year. DwellSafe is focused on changing these trends—making every living space safer for aging, recovery, and lifelong independence. With national partnerships already underway and a growing dataset on the home environment, the company is building the infrastructure for proactive, scalable prevention that empowers families, strengthens health systems, and supports communities across the country.
"Healthcare is changing, demographics are skewing older, assisted-living options are declining, and home-health providers are stretched thin," said Jonathan Hills, Co-Founder and President at DwellSafe. "DwellSafe provides a proactive, scalable solution—helping people stay safer, healthier, and more independent in their own homes."
About DwellSafe
DwellSafe is an AgeTech innovator transforming how families, healthcare providers, and communities identify and reduce home-safety risks. Powered by mobile technology, AI-driven analytics, and a national network of precision-matched clinicians, DwellSafe delivers personalized fall-risk insights and expert recommendations—without an in-person visit. From post-hospital recovery to lifelong aging in place, DwellSafe bridges the gap between healthcare and the home, helping people live safely, confidently, and independently at any age. For more information, visit dwellsafe.ai or follow DwellSafe on LinkedIn.
SOURCE DwellSafe / Carabiner Communications
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