Stop Discharging Blind: A Smarter Way to Assess the Home. SafeHomeAI with Justin Strause, PT, DPT

You send someone home and hope the environment holds up. Justin, an outpatient PT, got tired of hoping, so he built Safe Home AI: an AI home-safety assessment that turns a few phone photos into a prioritized, tailored report patients and families can actually act on. We get into what it does, where it's headed, and the clinical judgment behind assessing any home well.

What you'll take away:

– Why "how's your home?" gets you an answer you can't use and what to ask instead

– The discharge gap between leaving a facility and home health arriving, and why it dictates so much of what follows

– The big rocks of any home assessment: pattern recognition, the bathroom, lighting, and future-proofing with blocking between the studs

– Why a 70-item checklist overwhelms people into doing nothing and how triaging to the top 3 fixes changes everything

– How a clinician with no tech background built a real tool by refusing to stay still

Chapters:

00:00 – Keeping people home as long as possible

01:00 – Certified Aging in Place & the billable-time problem

02:57 – The article that lit the spark

04:45 – What Safe Home AI actually does