This material was created by the National Home Safety and Home Modification Work Group, a partnership of the National Falls Prevention Resource Center at the National Council on Aging and the USC Leonard Davis School Fall Prevention Center.

This checklist comes from the Greater Los Angeles VA Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center and partners. A validated fall-risk self-assessment tool (Rubenstein et al., J Safety Res, 2011), used here with the authors' permission also.

DID YOU KNOW? You may have under three minutes to escape a home fire safely. Work through this checklist to lower your fire risk, and be sure to build and regularly rehearse a complete home escape plan so everyone knows just what to do now.