What your result includes
The assessment is thirteen gentle questions that run entirely in your browser. Nothing is stored and no email is asked for. Here is exactly what it asks and what the result gives you, so you know what to expect before you start, and so you can see the words we use even without running it.
The thirteen questions it asks
Plain language, one at a time, and you can skip anything you are unsure about:
- Who you are looking into care for
- Their age
- Their current living situation
- Any memory concerns (a diagnosis is not required to answer)
- Any falls in the last six months or so
- How they usually get around
- Which day-to-day things they need help with
- Any wandering or safety scares
- How much support they have right now
- How urgent it feels
- A realistic monthly budget for care (a rough sense is fine, and "I do not know yet" is an option)
- Whether their home is owned or rented (this only affects which funding options are mentioned)
- Their ZIP code (optional; it localizes cost figures and is never stored or sent anywhere)
What the result gives you
A plain-language summary
One or two calm sentences drawn from your answers: what you described, in words a stressed person can absorb. It can point to something concrete ("real help at home is worth arranging now"), and it always carries this limit, right beneath it:
This is built only from what you entered, so it cannot see the full picture. Use it to prepare questions for your parent and their doctor.
What this kind of care costs where your parent lives
The result pairs the summary with real median costs for your state, from the CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025, for in-home care, assisted living, and nursing care, with a link to the full state cost breakdown and a one-line pointer to how families pay for it. Numbers, not dread.
Ranked next conversations
Concrete next steps in order of what usually helps most, framed as conversations and actions rather than products: your Area Agency on Aging (free public help), what to ask the doctor, how to raise it with your parent, and the relevant free tools shown where they fit ("when you are ready to compare facilities"). A collapsible guide on how to actually have the conversation is folded in.
One optional next step, only when it fits
If your answers point to assisted living or memory care, the result ends with a single, low-pressure option: when you are ready, you can talk it through with a free advisor (A Place for Mom). It appears only there, only after everything above, and never changes your result. If we are paid a referral fee, it is at no cost to you. On every other result there is nothing to buy at all.
You can also take the result with you: a one-page PDF, a family meeting packet, and a share link that carries your answers inside the link (so you can text it to a sibling), all created on your device.