Will your home support what comes next?
The answer requires understanding both the person and the environment. Living Thesis brings those perspectives together in a professional assessment, written recommendations and a prioritized path forward.
Research is only valuable if it helps people make better decisions.
Our approach draws on established professional knowledge and research across aging, accessibility, healthcare, housing, design, construction, and lived experience. The question is practical: how can the home better support independence, dignity, connection, and quality of life?
This evidence-informed perspective shapes how we ask questions, review a home and make recommendations. It helps separate enduring principles from passing trends while recognizing that every person, family and home is different.
Pamela Nahal, RPN, CAPS, brings the healthcare, mental-health and aging-in-place lens shaped by 18 years of healthcare experience, to understanding the person and family. Lori Sutherland Burns, BID, RID, NCIDQ, brings the accessibility, design and built-environment lens to understanding the home.
Home Score™ helps organize findings. It is not the service.
Entrances & Approaches
Steps, thresholds, lighting, signage, weather protection.
Circulation & Flow
Hallways, turning space, floor transitions, sightlines.
Bathroom Function
Grab bar readiness, thresholds, seat height, visibility.
Kitchen & Meals
Reach zones, counter height, appliance access, seating.
Bedroom & Sleep
Bed access, night lighting, temperature, quiet.
Lighting & Visual Comfort
Layered lighting, glare control, transitions, night paths.
Storage & Everyday Use
Reach ranges, weight, labels, daily-use zones.
Indoor Air Quality
Ventilation, humidity, filtration, materials.
Outdoor & Connection
Access to nature, community, walkability, mobility.
Safety & Emergency Readiness
Alarms, fall risk, emergency access, communication.
Technology & Smart-Home Readiness
Connectivity, monitoring, care-team tools, ease of use.
Future Adaptability
Structural readiness for the changes life will bring.
The Living Thesis Home Score™ may be incorporated as one tool within a Home + Life Assessment. It can help communicate how the home currently supports daily life and where change may be useful. The value families receive is the founders’ professional assessment, recommendations and roadmap: clarity about what to do next.
Informed
Grounded in established research, professional knowledge, accessibility principles, and building science.
Practical
Every domain maps to actions families and professionals can actually take.
Evolving
Updated continuously as evidence, technology, and lived experience develop.