Smart Technology to Enhance Your Home Rehabilitation

Returning home from inpatient rehabilitation can be a daunting process. Alongside the potential changes in your daily routines, it may be necessary to change the functionality of your house. In order to make this process as seamless as possible, we have developed a mobile app to evaluate your home situation. Use the smart technology funded by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation to revolutionize your rehabilitative recovery.

A home evaluation consists of documenting the dimensions of rooms, hallways, door widths, obstacles, and other facets of you home after a serious surgery or return from impatient rehabilitation. Usually, the patient will be unable to complete this process alone and a friend or family will complete the home evaluation on paper.

The patient will receive the necessary equipment and alterations to their home to assist with their recovery. This includes new beds, wheelchairs, commodes, tub benches, and other utilities to give the patient as much independence as possible.

If the home evaluation is not done properly, the recipient could end up receiving the wrong materials, products, and equipment – or even equipment that is unsafe or unusable. A common issue with this process is slight miscalculations and poor recordings of dimension by the family member. This has a knock-on-effect of the products later distributed by the therapist not fitting the requirements of your property, which often leads to a frustrating process of rectification.

Our innovative technology curtails this issue by making the assessment form easier to fill in. This provides more accurate and reliable measurements, which allows for better decisions to be made by the clinician. The app will develop, test, and disseminate an accurate quantitative description of your house and create a precise floorplan. With accurate data, therapists can better draft appropriate changes to your home surroundings – making post inpatient rehabilitation a little easier.

For the moment, the app is being used around the country by clinicians and family members of patients at Mount Sinai as we test the Beta model. Going forward we will test it with rehabilitative facilities around the country before using feedback from community partners to develop the final versions. The application will then be available for general use.

If you believe that our home evaluation app could help you after inpatient rehabilitation, please contact us at Mount Sinai Department of Rehabilitative Medicine for a walkthrough on how to access it. Contact our switchboard at: (212) 241-6321