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This page is a structured reflection for people planning later life without assuming a spouse or adult child will coordinate everything. It summarizes your own answers across five areas and saves check-ins locally so you can see what you chose to revisit. The scores are not validated measures of readiness or risk.
This ranking only sorts the answers you entered. A lower score can be a prompt for a conversation, not a finding that an area is unsafe or legally incomplete.
Answer a few questions above and the ranking appears here.
Save a check-in whenever something changes, or once a year on a date you will remember. The value is in the second one.
Answer some questions to see the current picture.
A single readiness figure flattens exactly the information you need. Someone with immaculate legal paperwork and nobody to call at 2 a.m. can score the same overall as someone with a devoted circle of friends and no power of attorney, and the two of them are exposed to completely different things going wrong. What matters is the shape, not the average.
The ranking is simply one way to review your own responses. You can choose one area to discuss or verify first, but the page cannot decide which legal, medical, financial or housing issue is most important for you.
Health is the one that gets deferred, and it gets deferred for an understandable reason: for most of adult life, the person who comes to the appointment and remembers what the doctor said is a spouse, and nobody plans for that role because nobody ever had to. Solo, it has to be asked for explicitly — which feels like a large favour to request, and is in fact a small one that people are usually glad to be asked.
Advance-care and substitute-decision documents have different names, formalities and effects depending on the jurisdiction. If this is an area you want to address, use current local official guidance or qualified legal and clinical advice rather than treating a generic checklist item as sufficient.
Research on solo aging keeps producing a result that surprises people: many solo agers report less loneliness than their partnered peers, not more. The explanation seems to be that they never got to assume a social life would maintain itself, so they built one on purpose — and intentional community turns out to be sturdier than the accidental kind.
The useful question is not who you would invite to dinner. It is who would notice within a day if you did not appear, and who you could call at two in the morning without rehearsing the sentence first. For most people those are much shorter lists than the dinner one, and shortening the distance between them is concrete, doable work.
A single snapshot tells you where the gaps are today. What it cannot tell you is whether you are the sort of person who closes them, which is a genuinely useful thing to know about yourself. Saving a check-in and repeating it — annually, or after anything changes — turns an uncomfortable afternoon into a record you can act on.
Pick a date you will not forget rather than a reminder you will dismiss. Many people attach it to a birthday or the start of a tax year. The interval matters far less than the fact that there is a second one at all.
Someone growing older without a spouse or adult children close enough to rely on by default. It covers people who never married, people who outlived a partner, people whose children live far away or cannot help, and people who are estranged from family. The common thread is not loneliness — it is that the safety net most retirement planning quietly assumes has to be built on purpose instead.
Health, money and legal protection, home, community and chosen family, and future planning. The point of scoring all five is not the total. It is to find the one or two that are genuinely thin, because most people score fine on three and are quietly avoiding the other two — and those are the ones a fall or a diagnosis will find first.
No. There is no account and no email address. Your answers and every saved check-in stay in this browser on this device and are never uploaded. You can export a backup file, download a standalone copy, or print the result to bring to a doctor, attorney or friend.