My Accessible Home
MyAccessibleHome offers a user-friendly mobile app suite designed to enhance independence and home safety for aging adults as well as people with disabilities and their caregivers or families. Our expert AI-powered platform provides personalized recommendations for home modifications, ensuring a safe and supportive living environment. Recognized for excellence and expertise, our commitment to improving quality of life stands out in the industry, making us a trusted resource for home safety.
Our app has successfully supported clients in modifying their homes for improved safety and accessibility, enhancing their quality of life. In fact, use of our app alone has contributed to increased patient reported confidence with engaging in daily tasks in their homes.
Our vision is to make the world a more accessible place. Majority of people wish to remain living in their homes for as long as possible. myAccessibleHome aims to empower people to remain in their homes by providing expert-level recommendations even when people don’t have access to an expert near them.
Investigators at TWU
- Noralyn D. Pickens, PhD, OT, FAOTA, FNAP
npickens@twu.edu - Suzanne P. Burns, PhD, OTR/L
- Rochelle Mendonca, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
- Roger O. Smith, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, RESNA Fellow
Grant Funding
This project was supported, in part by grant number 90DPGE0016, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201.
Publications
Burns, S. P., Mendonca, R., Pickens, N. D., O'Donnell Knudson, L., & Smith, R. O. (2025). A brief report on the iterative development and content validation of the myAccessibleHome app for home safety screening and interventions. Assistive Technology, 37(6), 435-440. doi: 10.1080/10400435.2025.2462576.
Burns, S., Mendonca, R., & Pickens, N. (2024). Home modifications. In B. A. B. Schell and J. W. Schell (Eds.), Clinical and professional reasoning in Occupational Therapy, 3e. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Burns, S. P., Mendonca, R., Pickens, N. D. & Smith, R. O. (2021) America’s housing affordability crisis: perpetuating disparities among people with disability, Disability & Society, DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2021.1960276
Pickens, N.D., Mendonca, R., Burns, S.P & Smith, R.O. (2020) Home safety evaluation –getting it right. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, DOI:10.1080/17483107.2020.1805033
Burns, S. P., Pickens, N. D., & Smith, R. O. (2017). Interprofessional client-centered reasoning processes in home modification practice. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 31(3), 213-228. doi:10.1080/02763893.2017.1280579
Mendonca, R., Pickens, N., & Smith, R. O. (2017). Environmental modifications: Ethics of assessment and intervention (pp. 283-294). In, Practical Applications for the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics (2015), J.B. Scott & S. M. Reitz (Eds.). AOTA Press.
Burns, S. P. & Pickens, N. D. (2016). Embedding Technology into Inter-professional Best-practice Home Safety Evaluation. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology,12(6), 585-591 doi: 10.1080/17483107.2016.1189000(https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2021.1960276)
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