Our mission is to give agencies the tools and expertise they need to embrace the Smart Living model. Through training, assessment tools, and connections with technology companies, ShiftAbility sets up agencies to be their own remote support provider.
Our mission is to give agencies the tools and expertise they need to embrace the Smart Living model. Through training, assessment tools, and connections with technology companies, ShiftAbility sets up agencies to be their own remote support provider.
It includes new ways to assess staffing, the needs of the individuals, how to deliver supports, and the cultural methodology of inclusive services. A smart living provider works to achieve independence and inclusion for people supported while building capacity to serve more. This is accomplished through new ways to assess staffing, the needs of individuals and how the supports are delivered through assistive technology both remotely and in-person at home and in the community.
Smart Living is a new way of delivering services, using a value-based tech-first approach. It includes new ways to assess staffing, the needs of the individuals, how to deliver supports, and the cultural methodology of inclusive services. A smart living provider works to achieve independence and inclusion for people supported while building capacity to serve more. This is accomplished through new ways to assess staffing, the needs of individuals and how the supports are delivered through assistive technology both remotely and in-person at home and in the community.
Smart Living is not an initiative or a time-limited project; it is a new model for service delivery. We do not take a one-size-fits-all approach. Each agency will do it their own way by using what works for them and building upon it.
Assessment begins at the highest level and then works down granularly until we know what each person needs and supports that are important to and for them.
ShiftAbility matches support needs with available and appropriate technology. Those needs not solved through technology or remote supports are then delivered through in-person targeted supports.
MORE →Once all needs are determined and authorized, the transition to the Smart Living Model and training period for people supported and their team begins.
MORE →Remote supports and assistive technology are being delivered in combination with in-person supports.
MORE →After basic support and safety is solved for, expansion to health and wellness, as well as home automation grows the person’s independence.
MORE →Continuous follow up on changing technology and needs.
MORE →Smart Living is not an initiative or a time-limited project; it is a new model for service delivery. We do not take a one-size-fits-all approach. Each agency will do it their own way by using what works for them and building upon it.
Assessment begins at the highest level and then works down granularly until we know what the person needs and items that are important to and for them.
Our tech team matches items with available and appropriate technology.
Items not solved with technology delivered through Integrated Targeted Supports.
Once all needs are determined and authorized, the transition and training period begins.
After basic support and safety is solved for, expansion to heath and wellness, as well as home automation expands the person’s independence.
Continuous follow up on changing technology and needs.
Assessment begins at the highest level and then works down granularly until we know what the person needs and items that are important to and for them.
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Turn Individuals Away. We can serve the same amount of people or, in all likelihood, less with current staffing and models. With less staff to perform the work and an increase in the needs of those we support, we can stop taking new individuals and just continue serving those we have now. This will result in massive unmet needs and drastic increases in the current waitlists across the country.
Create Large Institutions. We can support more people with current caregiving models, but we must do so in much larger institutional settings. This will result in a likely return to the horrors of institutions that we have been trying to move away from over the past 50 years. While more people could be served, the trade off is inhumane.
To address the growing demands and challenges with the current system, Smart Living is a new model to serve more without congregate living. We can drastically change the way we provide services, through technology, new staffing models and customization of community supports through Smart Living.
Smart Living Remote Supports is a service model that combines technology and direct care to support people with developmental disabilities. It uses two-way communication in real time, including home-based sensors, cameras and other devices, to provide a less invasive way of responding to the needs of individuals living in the community 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
When hands-on care is not necessary, Remote Support makes it possible for direct care staff to provide care from a remote location, supporting a person’s need for greater independence.
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ShiftAbility is a transformation consulting firm that was born out of Smart Living and LADD. Its’ mission is to give agencies the tools and expertise they need to be Smart Living organizations. We will evaluate your population’s needs, recommend technology, walk you through installation and support you through your first number of months operating a remote support service model.
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