About
Our mission.
Staying in your own home should not require giving up your dignity, your privacy, or your voice.
We are a small community of designers, researchers, and people aging in place ourselves. We started this in 2026 because we kept reading studies about adults over 55 and rarely seeing studies with them.
We wanted a place where the questions came from the community, the answers were published openly, and the conversation belonged to everyone — not just the experts.
How we're funded
Trust is earned, not assumed.
SafeStandHome receives operating support from an independent furniture maker founded in 2019, based in New Jersey. We disclose this clearly because we believe transparency about funding is the foundation of credible research.
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Open dataset
All anonymized data is published under Creative Commons BY-NC. Anyone — including our sponsor's competitors — is welcome to use it with attribution.
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Editorial firewall
No sponsor reviews our research questions, methodology, or findings before publication. We have a written policy and document any exceptions.
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External advisory review
An independent advisory board of occupational therapists, aging-in-place designers, and community members reviews our work before publication.
Our team
The people behind the questions.
Our team will be listed by name with a short bio for each, alongside our advisory board of occupational therapists, aging-in-place designers, and community members.
If you'd like to be considered for the advisory board, write to us at hello@safestandhome.org.
Contact
Tell us what we should research.
Tell us what you're working on, what you're worried about, or what you wish someone would research. We read everything.
Privacy & data
What we collect, and what we don't.
We never sell, share, or attach your name to your survey answers. We never collect names; zip codes are aggregated to regions before publishing. We use privacy-first analytics — no cross-site tracking.
All published datasets are licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC. Researchers, students, occupational therapists, designers, and home builders are welcome to use them with attribution.