Scan My Rooms
Overview
Scan My Rooms is a home safety feature found under My Safety in your SeniorThrive sidebar. It uses ThriveVision — SeniorThrive's AI-powered camera technology — to analyze photos of your living spaces, identify potential safety hazards, and deliver a personalized list of improvement recommendations tailored to how you actually live.
The entire process takes 5–10 minutes and requires no special preparation. You'll earn ThrivePoints for completing each step, which contribute to your overall ThriveScore.
What's Included in Scan My Rooms
The Scan My Rooms feature consists of four connected tools:
- Scan My Rooms — The main scanning tool where you photograph each room and receive AI-generated safety insights.
- Room Scan History — A log of all your previous scans, filterable by date range and room type, so you can track safety improvements over time.
- Home Safety To-Do's — Your personalized action list generated from room scans. Tasks are ranked by impact (High, Medium, or Low) and can be filtered and printed.
- Emergency Info — Related safety information linked to your profile.
Getting Started: Your Home Safety Profile
The first time you open Scan My Rooms, you'll be asked to complete a short Home Safety Profile. This questionnaire helps ThriveVision understand your specific living situation so the safety recommendations it generates are relevant to you. Completing this profile earns you 20 ThrivePoints.
The questionnaire has three sections:
Section 1 — Home Environment (4 questions)
Covers your home setup and daily priorities.
- Your Main Goal — Helps ThriveVision understand what matters most to you right now, so recommendations match your priorities.
- Your Residence — Different home types have different safety considerations, so this helps tailor advice to your living situation.
- Home Levels — Lets ThriveVision know whether staircase safety is relevant for your home.
- Time at Home — The rooms you use most become your Priority Areas and receive the most detailed attention during scans.
Section 2 — Health & Daily Flow (5 questions)
Covers your general health and day-to-day independence.
- General Health — Gives ThriveVision a baseline understanding of your overall wellness.
- Sleep — Sleep affects alertness and reaction time, both relevant to fall risk and safety awareness.
- Energy Levels — Helps ThriveVision understand how fatigue may affect your daily movement patterns.
- Meal Preparation — Shapes how deeply ThriveVision evaluates your kitchen environment.
- Everyday Tasks — Helps match recommendations to your current level of independence.
Section 3 — Stability & Movement (7 questions)
Directly connected to fall prevention.
- Balance Experiences — Helps ThriveVision understand your day-to-day steadiness.
- Real-World Indicators — Identifies specific balance-related situations you may have experienced recently.
- Situational Modifiers — Highlights conditions (like low light or carrying items) that may affect your stability.
- Mobility Aids — Ensures recommendations account for any devices you use to get around.
- Vision — Vision plays a key role in navigating your home safely.
- Fall History — Helps ThriveVision prioritize the most critical safety improvements.
- Safety Features Already in Place — Avoids recommending things you've already done and focuses on genuine gaps.
After submitting, you'll see a Personalized Profile Summary showing how each answer will inform ThriveVision's analysis. You can edit your answers at any time from your profile settings.
How to Scan a Room
After completing your profile, you'll land on the main Scan My Rooms page. Rooms are organized into three tabs:
Priority Areas
Essential daily living spaces that ThriveVision recommends scanning first. For most users this includes:
- Bathroom (marked "Start Here" — always scanned first)
- Kitchen (typically High Risk)
- Bedroom (typically High Risk)
Indoor Areas
All other interior spaces in your home, including: Attic, Basement, Dining Room, Entryway, Garage, Home Office, Laundry Room, Living Room, Main Staircase, Secondary Stairs, and Storage Areas.
Outdoors
External spaces, including: Front Porch, Pool Area, Workshop/Shed, Backyard & Garden, and Patio/Deck.
Each room is labeled with a priority level based on your profile answers:
- 🔴 High Risk Area — Scan these first for the most important safety coverage
- 🟡 Recommended Next — Scan after completing high-risk areas
- 🟢 Low Priority — Scan when you have time
Step-by-Step: Scanning a Room
- Click on any room card from the Scan My Rooms page.
- You'll see the scanning screen for that room (e.g., "Scan Your Bathroom with ThriveVision").
- The room type is shown in a dropdown — you can change it if needed.
- Choose how to add photos:
- Use Camera — Take photos directly with your device's camera
- Upload Photos — Choose existing photos from your device's photo library
- Take 1 to 4 wide photos as you slowly turn around the room.
- Submit your photos for ThriveVision analysis.
- Receive your personalized safety recommendations in seconds.
Photo Tips for Better Scans
Following these tips gives ThriveVision the clearest view of your room and produces the most accurate recommendations.
- Show your everyday room. Leave it as-is. The way you actually live helps ThriveVision give realistic, useful tips — don't tidy up first.
- Stand near the center of the room. Position yourself where you normally walk, then slowly turn and take a few wide photos to capture all angles.
- Hold your phone at chest height. This captures floor hazards that might otherwise be cut out of the frame at eye level.
- Go wide. Step back as much as you can. Wide, full-room photos are more useful than close-up shots of individual objects.
- Hold steady. Pause, hold your hands still, then take the photo. Clear photos lead to better analysis.
- Take 1–4 photos per room. One photo from the center may be enough for a small space; larger rooms benefit from multiple angles.
The goal is a near 360-degree understanding of the room layout.
Supported file formats: JPEG and PNG. Your photos are private and secure — they are used only for your room safety analysis and are never shared without your explicit permission.
Scanning Bathrooms
Bathrooms require two vantage points because of tight layouts.
Position 1 — Doorway View
Stand in the doorway. Take wide photos looking into the bathroom.
Position 2 — Interior View
Step inside near the back wall. Take wide photos facing back toward the doorway.
Ensure these areas are visible:
- Toilet and transfer space
- Sink and faucet handles
- Shower or tub
- Floor surface and bath mats
Understanding Your Results
After scanning, your results feed into two places:
Home Safety To-Do's
This page shows all the safety improvement tasks generated from your scans. Each task is labeled by impact level:
- 🔴 High Impact — Address these first; they represent the most significant safety risks
- 🟡 Medium Impact — Important improvements to plan for
- 🟢 Low Impact — Smaller enhancements to comfort and safety
You can filter tasks by status (Pending, In Progress, Completed) and sort by priority. A Print Tasks button lets you share the list with a caregiver or family member. The Spot New Hazard button lets you manually add a safety concern you've noticed. Your Safety Progress bar tracks what percentage of tasks you've completed.
Room Scan History
The Room Scan History page gives you a record of every scan you've completed. You can filter by start date, end date, and room type to review past results and track how your home safety has improved over time. To access your history, at least one scan must be completed.
ThrivePoints & ThriveScore
Scan My Rooms activity contributes to your overall ThriveScore:
- +20 ThrivePoints for completing your Home Safety Profile
- +25 ThrivePoints for completing your first assessment
- Your Home Safety score (separate from your Wellness score) updates as you complete safety To-Do's
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to prepare my room before scanning?
No preparation is needed. Leave your room exactly as you normally use it — ThriveVision gives better, more realistic recommendations when it sees how you actually live.
Can I scan the same room more than once?
Yes. You can re-scan any room at any time, for example after making safety improvements. All scans are saved in your Room Scan History.
What if I don't have all the rooms listed?
Only scan the rooms that exist in your home. The room list covers many types of spaces, but you only need to scan the ones that apply to you.
Can I update my Home Safety Profile answers?
Yes. Your profile answers can be updated at any time through your profile settings. Updating them may change the priority ranking of rooms and the relevance of future recommendations.
Are my photos stored or shared?
Your photos are private and secure. They are used only to generate your personalized safety analysis and are never shared without your explicit permission.
Can someone else see my results?
You can print your Home Safety To-Do's to share with a caregiver, but sharing of digital access is managed through ThriveCircle.
How long does a scan take?
The complete process — profile + scanning all priority rooms — takes approximately 5–10 minutes. Individual room scans take only seconds to analyze after photos are submitted.
What if I use a cane, walker, or wheelchair?
Your mobility aids are captured in the Home Safety Profile. ThriveVision uses this information to tailor recommendations specifically to your movement needs.
Tips for Getting the Most Out of Scan My Rooms
- Start with the Priority Areas tab — Bathroom, Kitchen, and Bedroom are where most home safety risks occur and where ThriveVision's recommendations will have the biggest impact.
- Complete your profile honestly. The more accurate your answers, the more personalized and useful your safety plan will be.
- Rescan rooms after making changes. Once you've addressed a safety issue, rescanning lets ThriveVision confirm the improvement and update your recommendations.
- Use Home Safety To-Do's as a checklist. Share the printed list with a contractor, caregiver, or family member who may be helping you make modifications.
- Don't skip outdoor areas. Spaces like the front porch, patio, and backyard are common sources of falls and are worth scanning once you've covered the indoor priority areas.
For additional help, use the "Get Help" button at the top of any SeniorThrive page or just chat with Avery.