Home Safe Home

There's no place like home. In fact, the idea of "home" should conjure up positive images and feelings: Home is where the heart is. Your home is your castle. Home sweet home. The last thing your home should be is unsafe.

Home Safe Home helps older adults live independently, comfortably, and safely in their own homes. By identifying and correcting home hazards associated with fires, security, and particularly falls, Home Safe Home removes many of the perils that seniors face as they continue to live independently, at home.

Home Safe Home provides the following services.
• Home Safety Surveys.
With you or a family member, our trained and experienced representative will conduct a walk through survey of the home to identify existing safety concerns. During the visit, safety items such as a smoke detector, a bathmat, flashlight, and nightlight are provided. Afterwards you will receive a report that provides the current safety status of your home and details recommended improvements.

• Installation of Safety Equipment.
Home Safe Home can quickly improve the safety of your home. Our screened and knowledgeable independent contractors have the experience and special tools to install new equipment such as bathroom grab bars, interior and exterior stair railings, shower chairs, commode railings and more. We can install safety equipment on to many surfaces such as cement block and drywall.

• Special Projects.
When you need a custom safety project, Home Safe Home can help. We specialize in wooden ramp construction and we construct exterior stairways and railings in many attractive styles. We also have experience with major bathroom modifications.

• Self-Guided Home Safety Workbooks
Our home safety workbook is organized so that you can go from room to room, and inside/outside to conduct your own safety survey. After you identify safety concerns, contact us for advise or assistance. The workbook also contains valuable safety tips to improve your home and to increase your knowledge of the relationship between personal activity and injury prevention.

• Safety Education
Schedule a home safety presentation for your public or private organization. These informative talks present important home safety suggestions and then address the more personal issues of how the body changes over time and how to adapt both our habits and surrounding to those changes.

Home Safe Home is available to anyone living in Western Allegheny County and anywhere in Beaver County. For those who are 60 years of age and older, services may be subsidized or available at no cost.

For more information contact our Program Coordinator, at 412-749-5257 or HSH@valleycareassociation.org.