COMMUNITY PLAYBOOK
Residents keep improving all year.
You see your programs working.
Start with 12 residents and one 90-min class we lead,
in person or on Zoom. They finish at home and retest on schedule.
Getting started
Pick 12 residents
The ones who join everything, plus a skeptic or two.
We lead one class
About 90 min, in person or on Zoom. Residents finish the rest at home.
They spread the word
Your first residents become advocates. Your team runs it from there.
Certify in one hour
On your onboarding call. Anyone on your team can run it.
Book certification
Five tests. 30 min.
Two in class, three at home.
One kit covers a resident for a full year, retests included.
points to the gap.
you can just barely
hear the tone.
and name the scent.
and describe it.
point or two?
One next step
for every sense.
Your residents already train their brains with brain games, dual-task training and brain gyms. Now each one sees a clear next step per sense, gets reminders, and retests.
Every next step starts at home:
- 1Check todayA cold or a noisy room? The app offers a fair retest first.
- 2Practice at homeLike smell practice: 3 min a day for 12 weeks.
- 3RetestBefore and after, side by side.
- 4The right care, only if neededIf it’s still low, the next step points to care.
You choose where that care goes:
Get your residents started
Three ways to spread the word.
Send residents their page
This is the page your residents see: what to bring, the five tests, and how to get the app.
Send it before class day. Getting the app on
their phone is the hardest step, so a hand helps.
Circulate the flyer
Send it to your residents
Tell us about your class. We'll email you a ready-to-forward invite, videos included.
Why your senses matter
A scientist on how much of your brain runs on your senses, and why we should be measuring them.
Dr. Paule Joseph
PhD, MS, FNP-BC
Lasker Scholar at the NIH. TED Fellow. Guggenheim Fellow.
“I got five out of ten.
After a month, nine out of ten.”
Resident, Vi at La Jolla Village.
It started with 12 residents.
65 joined by word of mouth.
RUNNING IN COMMUNITIES LIKE
Questions communities ask first
- When do residents retest?
- All five within 14 days for the first Sensory Score. Then smell, hearing and vision every 3 to 6 months, taste and touch every year. Your team can move any date.
- What happens when a result is low?
- The app first checks that nothing threw off the test. Then the resident gets one next step that starts at home and goes to the care you chose only if it’s needed.
- Is it a medical program?
- No. It’s a wellness program that measures and manages the five senses. Every care decision stays with residents and their own providers.
- What does it take from our staff?
- Pick the residents, book a room and help them get the app before class. We lead the class. After that, the app handles reminders, check-ins and retests.