About and how we check
Senior Home Tools is a free site for older adults and the families who look out for them. It checks recalls, scam warnings, deadlines and home-repair programs, and it shows where every fact came from.
Who runs it
Smooth Rock Media LLC, a small company in the United States. We are not a government agency, and we are not connected to any agency or program listed here.
How a fact gets on this site
- It has to come from the official page: a government site, or the organization describing its own program.
- We copy a sentence from that page that proves the claim, and we show it to you.
- Every dollar amount, percent, deadline and phone number has to be printed on that same page.
- A program checks each fact against its page every morning. A fact that no longer matches comes off the site.
- Every fact shows the date it was last checked. Programs change, so confirm with the office before you rely on one.
What we do not do
- We do not charge families, and we never will.
- We do not approve, deny or process any benefit. Only the office that runs a program can do that.
- We do not help with VA claims. Your county Veterans Service Office does that for free.
- This is general information. It is not legal, medical or financial advice.
How the site is paid for
Today it earns nothing. If that changes, this page will say how. If we ever link to a product and get paid for it, that link will be marked where you see it, and no company can pay to change what we say.
Your information
- There is no sign-up. We do not ask for your name, phone number or email.
- Your answers on the checks, your county and your text-size choice stay on your own device so the page can remember them. They are not sent to us.
- Search runs on your device. What you type is not sent to us.
- We do not use advertising trackers. Like any website, the company that hosts our pages (Cloudflare) handles each page request.
Rather talk to a person?
The Eldercare Locator is a free public service: 1-800-677-1116.