Free tools you can link to, print, or put on your own site
This page is for the people who hand things to families: aging services staff, librarians, extension educators, occupational and physical therapists, discharge planners, and home care coordinators. Everything listed here is free to use and works without an account.
What you can use
- Care needs assessment
Helps a family work out how much day-to-day help a parent currently needs.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/care-needs-assessment
- Caregiver burnout assessment
For the carer rather than the person being cared for.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/caregiver-burnout-assessment
- Fall risk assessment
A short questionnaire that returns a low, moderate or high risk band with next steps.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/fall-risk-assessment
- Funeral cost calculator
Free to use.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/funeral-cost-calculator
- Home safety checklist
Room-by-room walkthrough of hazards, with what to change first.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/home-safety-checklist
- Life expectancy calculator
Free to use.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/life-expectancy-calculator
- Measure before you buy
Four measurements to take before buying a walker, grab bar, shower chair or transfer bench, the ranges to look for, and the listing field to check.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/measure-before-you-buy
- Care cost calculator
Estimates the monthly cost of different care arrangements.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/senior-care-cost-calculator
- Care plan generator
Builds a printable care plan from a short set of answers.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/senior-care-plan-generator
- Should my parent live alone?
Weighs the specific risks that make living alone unsafe.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/should-parent-live-alone
- Symptom checker
Points families toward the right level of care for a new symptom.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/symptom-checker-for-seniors
- Walking aid finder
Answer five questions about how your parent walks today and see whether a cane, a standard walker, a rollator or a professional assessment is the right next step.
https://elderlydaily.com/tools/walking-aid-finder
We also publish printable exercise and daily-routine sheets — for example the chair yoga sheet, with the rest under Seniors Daily. Print and hand them out freely.
Permission, in plain words
- Link to any page here from your website, resource list, newsletter or handout. You do not need to ask us first.
- Print our printables and hand them out, including in classes, clinics and support groups. Keep the footer credit on the sheet.
- Embed a tool on your own site using the code below, keeping the credit link visible.
- What we ask you not to do: republish our article text as your own, or strip the credit from a printable or an embed.
How this content is made
Guides that a physician has reviewed show the reviewer's name and the date of review at the top of the page. Product pages are desk research from manufacturer specifications, published testing and owner reports — we do not own or physically test the products, and we say so on every page. Products are checked against the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall database before they are listed, and a recalled product is removed rather than footnoted.
The site is paid for by affiliate links and display ads, and some tool and guide pages carry product recommendations. Using the tools and printables costs nothing and needs no account.
How to cite a page
If your organisation needs a reference format:
ElderlyDaily. (Year). Title of page. Retrieved [date] from https://elderlydaily.com/path
Each guide shows its published and last-updated dates, and the reviewing clinician where one has reviewed it.
Ask us for something
If your program needs a printable we do not have, or a version of a checklist in larger type, write and ask. We would rather build the thing you actually hand out than guess.
