SafelyYou vs Sage (2026)
Senior living teams use SafelyYou and Sage to connect fall monitoring with staff response and care operations. SafelyYou centers its offer on video detection and remote clinical review. Sage connects optional bedroom monitoring to nurse call, caregiver tasking, documentation and staffing insights. SafelyYou alerts onsite staff with video when it detects a fall. Nurses and therapists then review events with community teams in fall huddles to inform care plan changes. Its platform also includes emergency calling, ambient care measurement and wellness checks. A published pilot in six dementia care facilities examined emergency visits after falls; company leaders were coauthors. Broader fall reduction and detection claims come from internal analytics. Sage Detect sends an incident clip to authorized staff and escalates alerts until a caregiver reaches the resident. Consent controls bedroom camera use, while call buttons and staff checks remain relevant elsewhere. Sage Insight uses documented care activity to show changing needs and staffing demand. A five month CountryHouse Omaha pilot reported faster response and fewer falls, without event denominators or a concurrent comparison group. Both depend on caregivers to assess residents and act, and neither can promise that every fall will be detected. SafelyYou fits communities pairing fall detection with ongoing review by an external clinical team. Sage fits operators bringing resident calls, planned tasks, incidents and staffing analysis into one staff workflow.
- Communities want remote nurses and therapists involved in fall review.
- Memory care falls need video context for clinical huddles.
- Operators need ambient care measurement alongside fall monitoring.
- Care plan discussions need support from external clinical services.
- Nurse calls and planned care tasks need one caregiver workflow.
- Fall alerts must escalate until staff reach the resident.
- Leaders need care activity linked to staffing and level of care reviews.
- Optional bedroom monitoring needs to sit alongside conventional call buttons.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. SafelyYou and Sage are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | SafelyYou | Sage |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Home Care Operations | Remote Monitoring & Chronic Care |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California | New York, New York, United States |
| Website | safely-you.com | sagehealth.com |
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SafelyYou sells AI fall detection and care measurement to senior living operators, with memory care as its center of gravity. Cameras in residents' rooms detect falls and alert on-site staff within seconds with clear video of the event, so staff can see what happened, including falls a resident could not report.
Source: AI Health Index, October 2026
Sage provides software and connected devices for senior living and skilled nursing teams. Its care platform combines nurse call, resident alerts, care coordination, task documentation, and operational dashboards. Residents can request help through call hardware, while caregivers receive events in a mobile app and record the assistance they provide.
Source: AI Health Index, October 2026
Questions buyers ask
How are SafelyYou and Sage priced and sold?
For SafelyYou, the longer stay figure at Milestone Retirement Communities compares residents who opted in with those who did not, which cannot separate the product's effect from who chooses it.
With Sage, the June 2026 agreement specifies $300 for an extra phone beyond the included allocation, plus its data charges. It also describes a 45 day initial trial, with trial fees becoming payable if use continues. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified October 15, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
What evidence is published for SafelyYou and Sage?
In SafelyYou's case, the site cites Xiong and colleagues (American Journal of Managed Care, July 2019): a pilot from June to August 2018 in six residential dementia care facilities, 55 residents enrolled, comparing real-time video detection with standard practice.
For Sage, the findings describe that community's experience, without independent validation or results from other facilities. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified October 15, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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SafelyYou is based in San Francisco and Sage in New York. Both quote hardware, software and services. Sage's June 2026 agreement lists $300 for an additional phone plus data charges, an incidental amount that is no guide to the platform's base price.