Enabling Tech

Platform technology, sensors, integration, interoperability

Remote support professional engaged in a video call with an older adult, monitoring health data and personal wellbeing through enabling technology, demonstrating person-centered remote supports IDD in action.

Remote Supports IDD: The Technology-First Survival Guide for Provider Agencies

The intellectual and developmental disabilities service sector stands at a crossroads. With vacancy rates exceeding 40% at many provider agencies and turnover costs draining operational budgets, the traditional staffing model has become financially unsustainable. Remote supports IDD technology offers more than a band-aid solution. It represents a fundamental reimagining of how agencies deliver quality care […]

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Modern apartment with integrated enabling technology including smart home dashboard, environmental sensor, and voice assistant supporting independent living

Enabling Technology IDD: A Smarter Path Forward for Provider Agencies

he intellectual and developmental disabilities field is asking the wrong question. Across conference halls, board rooms, and late-night staff meetings, the conversation keeps circling back to the same place: how do we find more people? How do we fill these positions? How do we keep paying overtime and still keep the lights on? These are

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Remote Health Monitoring for Aging Adults with IDD_ A Clinical Perspective on Enabling Technology

Remote Health Monitoring for Aging Adults with IDD: A Clinical Perspective on Enabling Technology

I have been a nurse for thirty years. Most of those years were spent in cardiology, watching monitors, reading rhythms, and making decisions in the space between one heartbeat and the next. When I transitioned into disability services, I expected the clinical complexity to decrease. I was wrong. What I found was a population aging

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