Functional Mobility Intelligence

Independence is measurable. We measure it, and we watch it over time.

How a person walks, stands, and balances is one of the clearest signals of how well they are doing overall. functionIQ turns a few short, evidence-based tests into a picture of what is changing, so seniors, their families, and the teams who care for them can act early instead of reacting late.

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Built and running in Canada · created by a practising physiotherapist
Start Here

One picture of how someone is doing, written for everyone who cares.

The same measurements answer a different question depending on who is asking. Choose the one that sounds like you.

For senior living teams
“How are our residents really doing?”
Objective mobility data across your community, with the people who are slipping surfaced early.
For families
“Is Mom still managing okay?”
A straight answer, based on measurements rather than impressions, so you can plan instead of worry.
For older adults
“I want to stay in my home.”
A clear view of your own strength and balance, and whether what you are doing is working.
Why It Matters

The changes that cost people their independence are small, slow, and easy to miss.

Walking a little slower. Pushing off the armrests to stand. Taking the stairs one at a time. Each on its own means nothing. Together, over months, they are the clearest warning we have, and almost nobody is measuring them.

1 in 5
Canadians will be over 65 by 2030
The fastest-growing part of the population, and the great majority want to stay in their own homes.
$5.6B
Annual cost of falls in Canada
Falls are the leading cause of injury-related hospitalization among older Canadians.
Months
Of warning that usually goes unrecorded
Mobility typically declines gradually before a fall or a move to higher care. That window is where functionIQ works.
Most care systems document what already happened. Very few measure the direction someone is heading.
How It Works

Four short tests. Ten minutes. Repeated over time.

There is nothing to wear, nothing to install at home, and nothing for the older adult to prepare. A qualified clinician runs the same brief set of tests each visit, which is exactly what makes change visible.

Step 01

Baseline

A clinician measures walking speed, how easily someone rises from a chair, balance, and general mobility. Under ten minutes, wherever the person already is.

Step 02

Plain-language results

Numbers become sentences. Where this person stands today, what it means practically, and what would help most.

Step 03

Act on it

Measurement alone changes nothing. Results route into exercise, rehabilitation, or a change in support, which is the part that is proven to work.

Step 04

Re-measure

The same tests, repeated on a schedule. Now there is a trend, and the trend is the thing nobody else has.

The Measures

Chosen because the evidence is strong, not because they are easy.

Four validated measures used in geriatric practice worldwide. Each one has published research behind it linking performance to real outcomes in older adults.

01
Timed Up and Go
Stand up, walk a short distance, turn, sit back down. A widely used benchmark of everyday mobility and fall risk.
02
Walking speed
How fast someone covers four metres. One of the most powerful single predictors of health outcomes in older adults.
03
30-second sit-to-stand
How many times someone can rise from a chair in half a minute. A direct read on leg strength and stamina.
04
Balance test
Holding four progressively harder standing positions. Objectively scored, so improvement or decline is unmistakable.
The trend is the product. Every reassessment is compared against that person’s own earlier results, never against a generic average. When something moves in a direction that matters clinically, the platform flags it for the clinician to review.
For senior living & community teams

Show families you saw it coming.

Executive directors, wellness managers, and recreation teams all face the same gap: staff can sense that a resident is slipping, but there is no objective way to show it, act on it, or prove that the programming is working. functionIQ closes that gap without adding to your team’s workload.

What your organization gets

  • A measured baseline for every enrolled resident, so “how is she doing?” has an answer beyond an anecdote.
  • Early flags on residents whose mobility is changing, in time to intervene rather than respond.
  • Evidence that your wellness programming works, expressed in outcomes rather than attendance counts.
  • A community-level view of how your resident population is trending, useful for planning and for head office.
  • Something concrete to give families, which is consistently one of the hardest conversations your team has.

What it asks of you

  • No new software for your staff to learn. Assessments are run by qualified clinicians, not by your team.
  • No change to your existing systems. functionIQ sits alongside your care plans and records, not inside them.
  • No disruption to residents. Ten minutes, in a common room or a suite, nothing to wear or install.
  • It works with your current rehab provider, rather than displacing that relationship.

How this differs from a standard rehab contract

Typical rehab partnership functionIQ program
Triggered by an incident or a referralRuns continuously, on a schedule
Treats people who are already decliningIdentifies people who are starting to decline
Notes go into a chart and are rarely re-readTrends are visible at a glance
Family updates are anecdotalFamily updates are grounded in measurements
No view above the individual residentCommunity-level picture for leadership
Programs are typically scoped as a paid engagement with a defined pilot period, so your team can evaluate the value on your own residents before committing further. We are working with a small number of founding partner organizations in the Lower Mainland and will size the first engagement around what you actually want to learn.
For families

The quiet question, answered honestly.

When someone you love is getting older, the hardest question is usually the one nobody says out loud: are they actually okay, or are small things slowly getting harder? Most families are left guessing between visits, reading into a phone call, or waiting for something to go wrong before anyone acts.

What actually happens?
A clinician spends about ten minutes with your parent doing four simple things: walking a short distance, standing up from a chair, holding a few balance positions, and one combined movement test. No needles, no questionnaires, no homework.
What do we get back?
A clear summary in ordinary language: how they are doing now, what has changed since last time, and what would help most. Not a chart full of jargon you have to decode.
Why measure it more than once?
A single number tells you very little. The direction of travel tells you almost everything. Repeating the same tests is what turns “she seems a bit slower” into something you can see, discuss, and act on.
What would we do with it?
Usually something small and early: adjusting an exercise program, arranging rehabilitation, changing the home setup, or simply knowing that things are holding steady and you can stop worrying about it this month.

What this is not

functionIQ reaches families through the clinician or community that provides their care. If a parent already receives home physiotherapy or lives in a residence, the fastest route is to ask that provider whether they use functionIQ, or to point them here.
For older adults

This is about keeping your life, not cataloguing what you have lost.

Most tools aimed at older adults lead with risk, decline, and everything that might go wrong. That framing is both unpleasant and unhelpful. The reason to measure how you move is far simpler: it is the most reliable way to keep doing the things you want to keep doing.

What you can expect

  • Ten minutes, wherever you already are. No clinic trip, no gown, no waiting room.
  • Your own numbers, explained to you. Not a file about you that other people read.
  • A goal you can watch improve. Strength and balance both respond to training well into later life, and progress shows up in the measurements.
  • You decide what gets shared and with whom, including your family.

Why bother measuring at all

Because the alternative is finding out the hard way. Most people do not notice their walking has slowed or their legs have weakened until something happens that is difficult to come back from.

Measured early, most of it is workable. Exercise remains one of the best-supported interventions in all of medicine for maintaining strength and reducing falls in older adults. Measurement is simply how you find out what to work on, and how you confirm that it is working.

The Platform

A working clinical tool, not a concept.

Behind the plain-language summaries is software that clinicians use during real visits. Below are screenshots from the live platform.

Longitudinal trajectory view showing a patient's measures plotted across visits
The trend over time
Every reassessment plotted against that person’s own earlier results, across all four measures.
Clinician dashboard listing patients ordered by who needs attention
Who needs attention today
People sorted by what has changed, so the clinician’s time goes where it matters most.
Timed Up and Go measurement screen with a tap-to-start timer
Fast enough to actually get used
Tap-to-start timing with the previous result visible throughout. Designed for a living room, not a desk.
Patient profile view with history and plain-language alerts
Plain-English flags
Rule-based and reviewable. Every flag traces back to a specific, documented threshold.
Are you a clinician or care team? See a full reassessment, the trajectory view, and how the decline flags fire. Access is by request. Request access →
Privacy & Trust

Health information, handled the way it should be.

functionIQ is not a US product retrofitted for Canada. It was designed here, for Canadian privacy law, from the first line of code.

C

Canadian data residency

All personal health information is stored on Canadian infrastructure, not exported abroad.

A

Access is controlled and recorded

Role-based permissions, isolation between organizations, and an audit record built into the data model.

R

No AI in the clinical decision path

Flags come from explicit, documented rules a clinician can inspect and challenge. Nothing is generated by a language model.

W

Works where care happens

Runs on a tablet and keeps working when the WiFi does not, syncing once it reconnects. Home visits demand it.

Who Built This

Nicolas Marchant

Founder, functionIQ · Registered Physiotherapist · Founder, PhysioHome

functionIQ was built by a working clinician. Nicolas runs PhysioHome, a home-visit physiotherapy practice across Vancouver’s Lower Mainland, and the problem functionIQ addresses is one he encounters weekly: knowing that a client is losing ground, and having no structured way to show it, act on it, or track whether the plan is working.

PhysioHome is where functionIQ runs today. Every part of the platform has been shaped by real visits with real older adults, in their own homes, under real time pressure. That is also why speed matters so much in the design: an assessment that takes too long simply stops being done.

We are now opening conversations with senior living communities, activity centres, and home-care providers across the Lower Mainland who want to bring the same approach to the people they serve.

Talk To Us

Let’s find out whether this fits your community.

Whether you run a residence, coordinate a seniors’ program, lead a care team, or are simply trying to work out what your parent needs, the next step is the same: a short conversation. No obligation and no pressure, and if functionIQ is not the right fit we will say so.

Email Nicolas → Clinicians: request access