Safety Data & Research
Statistics, rankings, and public safety data — 39 free guides.
Most Dangerous Hiking Trails in the World
Ranked list of the world's most dangerous hiking trails with accident statistics, rescue data, and safety recommendations. Updated for 2026.
Read Guide →Hiking Fatality Statistics
Comprehensive data on hiking deaths by country, cause, age group, and hiking style. Includes prevention strategies based on statistical analysis.
Read Guide →Safest Cities for Solo Travel
Ranked list of the 25 safest cities for solo travelers in 2026, with safety scores, crime indices, healthcare access ratings, and practical tips.
Read Guide →Lone Worker Safety Statistics
Data on lone worker risks by industry, incident types, regulations by country, and technology solutions. 53 million lone workers in the US and growing.
Read Guide →Elderly Fall Statistics
Comprehensive data on falls among adults 65+: frequency, locations, costs, risk factors, and prevention effectiveness. Falls are the leading cause of injury death for older adults.
Read Guide →Living Alone Emergency Statistics
Data on emergency risks for the 37.9 million Americans living alone: response times, the discovery gap, common emergencies, and how daily check-ins reduce risk.
Read Guide →Night Walking Safety Statistics
Data on pedestrian safety risks by time of day, city rankings for night walking safety, risk factors, and gender disparities. Updated for 2026.
Read Guide →Women's Safety Statistics
Data on women's personal safety concerns, behavioral changes, violence prevalence, and technology adoption for safety. Updated for 2026.
Read Guide →Solo Female Travel Safety Index
Country-by-country safety rankings for solo female travelers with scores for street harassment, public transit safety, healthcare, and legal protections. Updated for 2026.
Read Guide →Delivery Driver Safety Statistics
Data on delivery driver and gig worker safety risks, incident types, time-of-day analysis, and platform safety feature comparisons. Updated for 2026.
Read Guide →Remote Worker Isolation Statistics
Data on remote worker isolation, loneliness, mental health impact, physical safety concerns, and solutions for the 35% of workers who are fully remote. Updated for 2026.
Read Guide →Caregiver Burnout Statistics
Data on caregiver burnout prevalence, hours spent caregiving, financial costs, health impact, and evidence-based interventions. Updated for 2026.
Read Guide →Cost of Elderly Care by Type (US, 2026)
Verified US median costs of elderly care by type in 2026: nursing home, memory care, assisted living, in-home aide, and medical alert systems, compared against a $0 daily check-in.
Read Guide →Cost to Monitor an Elderly Parent (2026)
2026 dataset comparing the verified cost of every way to keep an eye on an elderly parent living alone, from a $0 daily check-in app to a $37/month medical alert pendant to in-home care and facility care built on US cost figures from NCOA and Genworth/CareScout.
Read Guide →Men vs Women Living Alone: Statistics by Sex, Age & Country (2026)
Verified primary-source statistics on the share of men and women living alone among older adults in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, by age band and sex, from national statistical agencies.
Read Guide →Health Risks of Living Alone: Mortality, Isolation & Delayed-Help Statistics (2026)
A sourced dataset of the principal health risks associated with living alone, including chronic-loneliness excess mortality, social-isolation dementia risk, isolation prevalence among older adults, long-lie mortality after a fall, and verified living-alone prevalence by country across the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
Read Guide →Elderly Fall Statistics UK: NHS Admissions, Deaths and Living-Alone Risk
Verified UK elderly fall statistics: ~210,000 emergency hospital fall admissions among people aged 65+ in England each year (OHID, 2022/23), ~146,700 in the 80+ group, plus living-alone exposure and long-lie mortality.
Read Guide →Living Alone in the UK Statistics (2026): Seniors & Risk
Verified statistics on older people living alone in the UK, including the 30.1% of people aged 65 and over in England and Wales who lived alone in 2021 (about 3.3 million), the women-versus-men split, loneliness, fall admissions, unpaid carers and long-lie mortality.
Read Guide →Living Alone in Australia Statistics (2026)
Verified statistics on older Australians living alone by age and sex, with falls, carer and loneliness context and the peer-reviewed long-lie mortality figure, from the ABS, AIHW and a peer-reviewed cohort.
Read Guide →Living Alone in Canada Statistics (2026): Seniors by Age and Risk
Verified Statistics Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada data on Canadians living alone by age band and sex, with loneliness and falls context for seniors living alone.
Read Guide →Elderly Falls in Australia Statistics (2026)
Verified AIHW and ABS statistics on falls among Australians aged 65 and over, including the share of injury hospitalisations and deaths caused by falls, relative risk by age, where falls happen, and the living-alone context.
Read Guide →Senior Falls in Canada: Rates, Hospitalizations and Cost
Verified Canadian senior-fall figures: 7,621 fall deaths among adults 65+ in 2022 (up 51% since 2017), ~72,392 fall hospitalizations, falls as 85% of senior injury hospitalizations, ~$2B/yr direct cost, plus living-alone exposure and long-lie mortality.
Read Guide →Aging in Place Statistics: Preferences, Confidence & Safety Net (2026 Data) | ImAlive
Verified primary-source statistics on aging in place in the US and Australia: 93% of older Americans already live in their own home, but only 37% are confident of getting the care they'd want and just 21% hold long-term-care insurance (Pew, AARP, AIHW, US Census).
Read Guide →Senior Loneliness Statistics: How Common It Is & Why It Matters (2026 Data) | ImAlive
Verified primary-source statistics on loneliness and social isolation among older adults in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, plus the physical health consequences, with every figure attributed to its named source.
Read Guide →Family Caregiver Statistics: How Many Unpaid Carers in the US, UK, Australia & Canada (2026 Data) | ImAlive
Verified primary-source statistics on the scale and economic value of family and unpaid caregiving across the US, UK, Australia and Canada, from AARP, the ONS, the ABS and Statistics Canada.
Read Guide →Australia Aging in Place Statistics: Home Care, Living Alone & Falls (2026 Data) | ImAlive
Verified Australian primary-source statistics on aging in place: more than 272,000 people aged 65+ in home care at June 2024, a home-care use rate that tripled since 2017, living-alone shares among older Australians, and where falls happen — all from AIHW and the ABS.
Read Guide →Medical Alarm Cost in Australia: Prices, Monthly Fees & Free Alternatives (2026 Data) | ImAlive
Verified 2026 AUD prices for personal and medical alarms in Australia across ten providers, with upfront device costs, ongoing monthly monitoring fees, contract models and call-centre-versus-family alerting, plus where a free daily check-in fits and the new AT-HM funding tiers.
Read Guide →Aged Care Cost Australia 2026: Real Fees in AUD by Care Type (2026 Data) | ImAlive
Verified primary-source figures on the real cost of aged care in Australia in AUD — the residential basic daily fee of A$66.80/day, Support at Home annual budgets from A$11,000 to A$78,106, participant contributions and where a free daily check-in fits for older Australians ageing at home. Sourced from the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (My Aged Care) and the Productivity Commission.
Read Guide →Dementia Statistics Australia: Scale, Growth & Where People Live (2026 Data) | ImAlive
Verified primary-source dementia statistics for Australia from AIHW: 425,000 Australians living with dementia in 2024, prevalence by age, the projection to nearly 1.1 million by 2065, and where people with dementia live, with full citations.
Read Guide →Australia Ambulance Response Time Statistics by State (2026 Data) | ImAlive
Verified Productivity Commission RoGS 2026 figures on Australian ambulance response times by state and territory, plus what the response gap means for older people who live alone, with falls and living-alone context from ABS and AIHW.
Read Guide →Seniors Living Alone: Australia vs Singapore vs New Zealand (2026 Data) | ImAlive
Verified primary-source statistics on older adults living alone in Australia, Singapore and New Zealand, from the ABS (via AIFS), Singapore's MOH/SingStat and Stats NZ, with each country's living-alone share, household counts and ageing-population context.
Read Guide →Aged Care Cost Comparison: Australia vs Singapore vs New Zealand (2026 Data) | ImAlive
Verified primary-source comparison of how older-age care is funded and what it costs across Australia (AUD), Singapore (SGD) and New Zealand (NZD), with each currency kept native and never FX-converted, from My Aged Care, CPF Board, MOH and Work and Income.
Read Guide →Dementia Statistics: Australia vs Singapore vs New Zealand (2026 Data) | ImAlive
Verified primary-source dementia statistics for Australia, Singapore and New Zealand: current prevalence and long-range projections from AIHW, Singapore's MOH/IMH and New Zealand's DEIR 2020, with each country's currency and projection year kept native and labelled.
Read Guide →Hidden Fees Behind Medical Alert "Monthly Prices" (2026 Data) | ImAlive
The add-on and hidden fees behind medical-alert monthly headlines: one-time equipment fees of $0–$200 (NCOA), fall detection sold as a separate $10–$11/mo add-on, and sale-vs-regular pricing across Bay Alarm Medical, Medical Guardian, MobileHelp and GetSafe (June 2026).
Read Guide →The True Cost of Aging in Place vs Facility Care in the US (2026 Data) | I Am Alive
What aging in place really costs in the US in 2026 versus assisted living and nursing-home care, using the 2024 Genworth/CareScout Cost of Care Survey and AARP's finding that 75% of adults 50+ want to stay home. See the cost gap that drives the decision, with sources.
Read Guide →No-Contract Medical Alert Systems: 2026 Price Comparison
A 2026 comparison of no-contract, month-to-month medical alert providers — monthly monitoring price, contract terms, equipment fee, and the fall-detection add-on — with I Am Alive's free daily check-in option.
Read Guide →Apple Watch & Wearable Fall Detection Accuracy: What Peer-Reviewed Studies Show (2026 Data)
Verified, peer-reviewed statistics on how accurate Apple Watch and wearable fall detection really is — strong for standing falls (sensitivity 76.99%), very low false alarms (1.7%), but only 4.7% accurate for wheelchair falls and 0.55 pooled sensitivity for predicting falls. The data and the gap a daily check-in closes.
Read Guide →Enterprise Caregiver Benefit Programs: Why Employers Should Support Working Caregivers (2026)
Why employers lose talent to caregiving and what a caregiving benefit program looks like in 2026: the turnover and productivity cost of unsupported working caregivers, the types of benefits employers offer, and a low-cost daily check-in benefit for employees with aging parents.
Read Guide →Elderly Monitoring, Power Outages & Battery Backup (US, 2026)
US power outages are lasting longer, and over 4.6 million at-risk Medicare beneficiaries depend on electricity for medical equipment or essential care. See the EIA outage-duration data, the emPOWER at-risk population, practical battery-backup steps, and how a free daily check-in works as a human tripwire when an outage leaves an older adult unable to respond.
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