To take the Mobility Check, sign in first.
This page explains how it works. The tool itself is inside your SeniorThrive account.
The Mobility Check is a short timed walk you do at home. You stand up from a chair, walk a few steps, turn around, walk back and sit down, timing yourself as you go.
Where to find it
Open My Health and choose the Mobility Check.
What it is modelled on
The check is modelled on the CDC's STEADI fall-prevention program, and the app says so on your results.
It also says something else on your results that is easy to skim past and worth reading properly: you time yourself, so the result is a starting point for a conversation, not a clinical measurement. A clinician doing this in a clinic starts and stops the clock at defined moments and has done it a thousand times. You are holding a phone. Those are not the same measurement and we are not going to pretend they are.
Before you start
Do it somewhere you would walk anyway, with a firm chair that does not slide, and wear the shoes you actually wear.
If you use a stick or a frame, use it. The check is asking how you move day to day, and your equipment is part of that. Keeping it with you gives you the most useful result.
If you feel unsteady, have someone nearby. This asks you to stand up and walk, and doing that alone when you are shaky is not worth a number on a screen. There is no result worth a fall.
Doing it
Follow the steps on screen and time the walk. Go at your normal pace. Not your best pace, not a demonstration pace. Your normal one, because that is the one you use all day.
Your results
You get your time and the CDC program named underneath it.
Tap Save Result to keep it, and the card then reads Saved to Profile. If the run did not go to plan, you set off late, the dog got involved, tap Try Again and have another go. Keeping the result of a fair attempt is what makes the comparison useful next time.
Your results also connect through to Room Check, because a slower walk matters most where you actually walk. Loose rugs and dark hallways are where the two meet.
What it does not tell you
It does not tell you that you are going to fall, and it does not tell you that you are fine. SeniorThrive does not diagnose and does not judge your reading.
What it gives you is a number, a date, and a published program that number relates to. Bring those to your doctor. If they want a proper measurement, they will do one, and yours told them it was worth doing.
Who sees it
Only you, and anyone in your Circle you have chosen to share your health with, set under Settings, in the Privacy & Sharing tab.
Doing it more than once
A single run, taken by itself, is nearly meaningless. The same walk, in the same shoes, in the same hallway, a few months apart, is genuinely useful. Keep the conditions boring and the comparison stays fair.