Your risk score, explained in plain English
Not a medical lecture. A clear picture of where your parent stands today: low, raised, or high risk, and what is driving it.
Do You Worry About Your Elderly Parents' Slips, Trips, and Falls?
Help them stay independent at home, without a fight, without a move, and without guessing. In this free two-minute check, you name what you have noticed, see what it adds up to, and know the one next step. Even if they still say they are fine.
Take the 2-Minute Falls Worry Check
8 questions. Your personalized score and one-page action plan arrive by email, free.
Built for busy adult children
Based on questions used across elder care
In-home visits across the Fort Lauderdale and Miami area, or at our clinic
A real therapist answers, within one working day
Your first step costs you nothing
The Falls Worry Check
The short version of the fall-risk screening used across elder care, built so a concerned son or daughter can finally put a number on the worry.
Free · 2 minutes · 8 questions
How worried should you actually be?
Answer 8 short questions about your parent: their age, whether they live alone, any falls or near-misses, and the things you have noticed but have not known what to do with. Nothing clinical. Nothing scary. Just the questions that matter.
You will see your score immediately. Your action plan arrives by email.
Almost done: where should we send your score and plan?
Your answers are in. Enter your details to see your parent's risk score right away, and receive your personalized one-page action plan and two bonus guides by email. A real person from our team will be in touch within one working day.
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Your result
What's inside
What you get the moment you finish the check
The warning signs families miss
Each one looks like nothing on its own. Together, they are the pattern that comes before a fall:
1. Furniture-walking. A hand on the counter, the chair back, the wall, crossing a room they have crossed for thirty years.
2. The near-fall they laughed off. The stumble they caught, the slide down the doorframe, mentioned in passing after the fact.
3. Getting up has become a project. The chair, the toilet, the edge of the bed: rocking forward, pushing with both hands, a pause to steady.
4. The quiet retreat. Stopped walks, skipped clubs, no more time with the grandchildren. "I'm just being careful."
These are the things you notice, then talk yourself out of. The check puts them on one page.
The cascade you can interrupt
One fall leads to fear of falling. Fear leads to moving less. Moving less leads to weakness, and weakness leads to the second fall, the one that ends in the hospital. Your plan shows you where your parent is on that path, and how to step off it.
What actually works to prevent falls
Not chair aerobics and "be careful, dear." Real, progressive strength and balance training, adapted to an older body. It is the single most effective way to keep an older person on their own two feet.
Your one-page action plan
Personalized to your answers: what to fix at home, what to watch for, and whether a professional mobility assessment is worth it for your situation. Delivered to your inbox.
A real expert, one working day
Complete the check and a real person from our team will be in touch within one working day. Not a call center. A therapist's practice, answering like one.
Why this matters
Falls in older adults follow a pattern. Which means you can get ahead of it.
- After the first fall, the second becomes much more likely. It is not bad luck. The fall plants a fear, the fear changes how your parent moves, and the changed movement quietly makes the next fall more likely.
- A broken hip changes everything, fast. Hospital, then rehab, then aides at home, then the conversations nobody wants to have about moving. In our clinical experience, fewer than half of older adults who break a hip return to the life they had before.
- But it is not inevitable. Targeted balance and strength work, done early, is the single most effective way to reduce fall risk. Falls prevention is early intervention. The best time to act was before the first fall. The second best time is now.
- A rug is not the whole job. The check separates a hazard you can fix this weekend from a change in strength that a rug grip will not solve. Careful does not rebuild leg strength.
- This is a screening, not a sales gimmick. It is the short version of the risk questions used across elder care, built so you can finally put a number on the worry. If your parent would benefit from proper therapy, you will know exactly what to do next, because that is the work we do.
The question is not "is my parent getting old?" It is "is their balance where it needs to be to keep them safe?" Now you can find out.
Included free
Along with your score and action plan, you also get
The Home Trip-Hazard Checklist
The room-by-room walkthrough we give families
Rugs, lighting, stairs, bathrooms, footwear, and the sneaky ones like the dog's water bowl and the hallway you cannot see at night. Most families find at least three fixable hazards in the first ten minutes.
- Room by room: bedroom, bathroom, stairs, kitchen, entrances
- The hazards almost every family misses
- Fixes that cost little or nothing
The Conversation Script
"How do I talk to my parent about this without insulting them?"
You do not have to open with "I think you might fall." You can open with "I did a short check, and this is what it said." That is the difference between a fight and a plan. The exact words to use, and the ones to avoid, when you raise falls with a parent who does not want to be treated as fragile. Written from years of having this conversation for a living.
- How to open the subject without a fight
- The framing that works: strength and independence, not frailty
- What to do if they flatly refuse
How it works
Three steps, starting right now
1. Take the check (2 minutes)
Eight questions about your parent: their age, whether they live alone, how they move around the house, any falls or near-misses, and the things you have noticed but have not known what to do with. Nothing clinical. Nothing scary. Just the questions that matter.
2. Get your score and your plan (by email)
You see your parent's risk level out of 100 immediately. Then a one-page action plan arrives by email, tailored to your answers: what to fix at home, what to watch for, and whether a professional mobility assessment is worth it for your situation.
3. Talk to a real expert (optional, and free)
If your score comes back raised or high, you can book a free 15-minute call with me or one of my team. We will tell you honestly whether therapy would help, what it would involve, and what your options are. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and point you somewhere useful.
What this gives you
Two people benefit from this check. You are one of them.
For you, the son or daughter
- The worry finally has a shape. Instead of a vague dread every time the phone rings, you have a score, a plan, and a clear idea of what you are dealing with.
- You stop guessing. You will know whether "she's just getting older" is actually "her balance needs attention now."
- You get ahead of the conversation you do not want to have later. Every family that ends up moving a parent into assisted living after a hip fracture says the same thing: we did not see it coming. This is how you see it coming.
For your parent
- Staying in their own home, on their terms. That is what this is really about. Independence, kept.
- Confidence back. Stronger legs and better balance do not just prevent the fall. They prevent the fear that shrinks their world: the skipped walks, the avoided stairs, the slow retreat from the life they enjoy.
- More years of the good stuff. Playing with the grandkids. Getting out to the shops. Taking the trash out themselves, because they still can, safely.
Does this apply to you?
This check was built for you if...
You want your parent to keep living at home, but you are not sure how much they are really at risk of falls
Your mom or dad is 70 or over and still lives at home, alone or as a couple
There has already been one fall, or a few near-misses you keep hearing about after the fact
No fall yet, but you have started to notice how they get out of a chair, or how long the stairs now take them
She is proud of living alone, and you do not want to insult her by treating her as fragile
You live too far away to pop in and see for yourself how they are really doing
You have asked their doctor about it and got ten rushed minutes and a leaflet
The whole family is quietly asking the question nobody wants to say out loud: is it time they moved?
If you nodded at even two of those, take the check. Two minutes now beats two years of "I really should do something about Mom."
Our response guarantee
Complete the check and a real person from our team will be in touch within one working day. If we are not the right people to help your family, we will tell you that straight and point you to someone who is.
- A real person, not an automated sequence that goes nowhere
- Honest answers, even when the answer is "we're not the right fit"
- Your details stay private. No sharing, no spam, no passing them around
Just scrolling? Here's the short version
Everything, in six lines
- You are worried about your elderly parent falling. That worry is well founded, and you can act on it now.
- Take the free Falls Worry Check: 8 questions, 2 minutes, based on the screening questions doctors actually use.
- Get your parent's personal risk score out of 100 plus a one-page action plan by email.
- Includes the Home Trip-Hazard Checklist and the conversation script for talking to a parent who resists being treated as fragile.
- A real person replies within one working day, and if your score is raised or high, a free 15-minute consultation is yours if you want it.
- No cost. No obligation. No scare tactics, just the truth about the risk and what to do about it.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Is this a medical diagnosis?
No. It is a risk screening based on standard fall-risk questions used across elder care. It gives you a clear indication of risk and what to do next. It does not replace your parent's doctor, it is not a CDC tool, and it is not endorsed by the CDC.
How is this different from a pamphlet?
A pamphlet does not know if they have fallen twice, if they furniture-walk, or if nobody else is in the house until evening. Your result is built from your answers, then emailed to you as one page you can actually use.
What if my parent will refuse to "be treated like they're old"?
Then you are exactly who Bonus 2 was written for. The plan is built to be done with them, not to them, and the framing is strength and independence, not frailty.
Is therapy covered by insurance?
Yes. We accept Medicare and most insurance. Physical and occupational therapy for falls prevention and balance is covered when it is medically necessary, subject to deductibles and coinsurance. We verify your parent's coverage in full before anything begins, so there are no surprises and no guessing.
My parent lives alone and I live in another state. Can you still help?
Yes. Many of the families we work with are exactly in that position. The plan tells you what can be done at a distance and what needs eyes on the ground. Visits happen wherever works: in your parent's home across Fort Lauderdale, Wilton Manors, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Pompano Beach and Miami, or in person at our clinic.
What happens to my answers?
They are used to build your personalized plan, and one of our team may call to offer help. That is it. No sharing, no spam, no passing details around.
What if the score comes back low?
Then you will know you can dial the worry down, and you will still have the home checklist and conversation script to keep it that way. Either way, you finish with more clarity than you started with.
Who is behind this?
Stellar Physical Therapy & Wellness: a physical and occupational therapy practice in Fort Lauderdale, led by Angel Baricelli, PT, DPT, MS. Angel spent years as a lead therapist inside senior living communities before going into practice for himself, and now specializes in falls prevention and balance for older adults living independently, in their homes and at the clinic.
You have carried this worry long enough.
Two minutes. Eight questions. One clear answer about how much you actually need to worry, and what to do about it if you do.
You have seen the walk change, or you have had the phone call, or you are the one in the family who is paying attention. The check will not move them out of their home. It will not promise they will never fall. It will give you one page you can use. Then you decide.
Take the 2-Minute Falls Worry CheckBased on the same questions doctors use. Your personalized score and action plan arrive by email, free.
Prefer to talk first? Call or text (954) 361-4446
Angel Baricelli, PT, DPT, MSStellar Physical Therapy & Wellness, Fort Lauderdale, FL