Common questions.

No. The program is scripted. Warm-up, main work, cool-down. So any staff member who's comfortable leading a room can run it. We provide a short onboarding, printable session sheets, and safety protocols. Certification is not required.

Twelve weeks end-to-end. Two 45-minute sessions per week, plus three assessments (baseline, midpoint, final). Cohorts are typically 8–12 residents.

Three tracks — Strength, Chair-Based, and Balance & Fall Prevention — matched to mobility and fall-risk profile. Most communities run two in parallel (Strength + Chair-Based). We walk through placement during the walkthrough call. See the three tracks.

Two weeks from signed agreement to Week 1 baseline. Faster for urgent cases. Onboarding is one working session with your activity director plus a walkthrough of the session scripts and assessment battery.

Yes, typically in the Chair-Based track. Sessions are shorter (30 minutes), format is entirely seated, and the script is built around repeatable cues. Residents with more advanced cognitive impairment should be evaluated individually during intake.

Most facilities run the next cohort with the same or an expanded resident list. The annual partnership covers unlimited cohorts for a year, so you can rotate groups, run tracks in parallel, or re-cohort residents who benefited from a specific track.

A branded PDF with per-resident progress across five clinical assessments (sit-to-stand, timed up-and-go, grip strength, single-leg balance, confidence), cohort-wide attendance, and fall-risk category shifts. The same report is suitable for corporate, family, and state-surveyor audiences.

No. Crucible Care is a structured fitness and wellness program. Assessment data is fitness data. Not medical records. Residents with medical conditions should have physician clearance before participating, and the intake process captures that.

Both, in sequence. Your first cohort is coach-led: a Crucible Care coach runs it alongside your staff so the first outcome is clean, credible proof. From there your own activity director or wellness coordinator can carry the program forward on our platform — no certification required, and it's the most affordable long-term path. The Balance & Fall Prevention track stays coach-led, and communities that want a Crucible Care coach running every session can stay fully coach-led.

Every participant signs a waiver at intake, and the program ships with release templates, intake screening forms, and incident-documentation templates. Facilities maintain their own general liability coverage. We’ll walk through the agreement language on the call.

PT addresses a specific clinical condition. Post-surgical rehab, an acute injury, a physician referral. Crucible Care picks up where PT leaves off: maintenance, deconditioning prevention, and fall-risk reduction for the general resident population. Your PT staff isn't running twice-weekly group fitness for 10 residents who finished their discharge goals. We are. The two services complement each other; they don't compete.

Every session script includes written stop criteria and an escalation protocol. If a stop-criterion event occurs (chest pain, dizziness, acute pain, participant refusal), the session stops immediately and nursing is contacted. We also provide a standardized incident report form compatible with your facility's existing documentation requirements. The Balance & Fall Prevention track is coach-supervised throughout. See the full safety framework →

Yes. The Safety & Clinical Framework page is written for clinical sign-off. Covers participant screening, track placement criteria, session safety design, and the published assessment methodology (CDC STEADI and Rikli & Jones). You can also email care@crucible.fit to request the one-page clinical summary PDF, or schedule a direct review call with your DON.

Yes. The sample is a live in-browser report. Same structure your facility's report uses, with representative numbers within published Senior Fitness Test norms. It includes per-resident assessment trends, cohort-wide averages, attendance data, and fall-risk band shifts. Formatted for corporate, family, and state-surveyor audiences.

F-tags around quality of life (F675), activities (F679), and fall prevention (F689) are where surveyors focus on resident engagement and fall-risk mitigation. Crucible Care gives you documented, measured programming. Not just a calendar entry. The outcomes report shows baseline-to-final improvement across five clinical assessments, which is exactly the kind of evidence-based documentation surveyors want to see. We don't promise survey outcomes, but documented improvement data is always better than anecdote.

Not today. Data exports as CSV for your records and reports. Direct integrations with PointClickCare and similar systems are a common ask from multi-building operators; we evaluate them case-by-case for coach-led and multi-site partners.

Most facilities ask this first, so here’s a straight answer: the program is priced against the cost of a single resident fall — not against your activities budget. There are two ways to run it: you run it — your wellness staff lead the program on our platform and we train and support them (the most affordable option, and most facilities’ long-term choice); or we run it — our coach is on-site each week. Exact pricing depends on your community’s size and which option fits, so we quote it on a quick call after you’ve seen the program work. The best place to start is a free demo class. You can also see the program page for how it works end to end.