Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology
The long-term care system is facing a breaking point.
Across disability and aging services, workforce shortages and demographic shifts are forcing providers to rethink how support is delivered. Enabling technology and remote supports, including smart home ecosystems, passive sensors, and hybrid support models, are emerging as critical solutions that can expand independence while strengthening the sustainability of care systems.
Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology by Precious “Preciosa” Myers-Brown is the first comprehensive operational playbook dedicated to implementing enabling technology and remote supports in disability and aging services.
Drawing on nearly four decades of experience in human services and innovation, Myers-Brown provides a practical roadmap for providers, policymakers, and technology innovators seeking to modernize support systems while preserving dignity, autonomy, and safety for individuals receiving services.
Why Tech Equity Matters
The traditional care model in disability and aging services has relied heavily on continuous human supervision. However, increasing demand for services combined with severe workforce shortages has made this model increasingly difficult to sustain.
Enabling technology introduces a new approach: interconnected systems of sensors, smart home technology, and remote support professionals working together to provide proactive and responsive support.
Rather than replacing human care, enabling technology strengthens care systems by:
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- expanding independence for individuals receiving services
- supporting overstretched care workforces
- improving safety through predictive monitoring
- enabling providers to deliver more sustainable support models
Frameworks Introduced in the Book
The Ritmo Framework
A model illustrating how technology evolves from individual assistive devices to fully integrated smart home ecosystems supported by human responders.
The Enabled Life Model
A framework focused on balancing safety, freedom, and connection in technology-enabled care environments.
The Tech Equity Triangle
A systems-level model requiring technology solutions to deliver access, safety, and liberation simultaneously.
The Seven Freedoms of Enabling Technology
A philosophical framework redefining independence, dignity, and autonomy in technology-supported living environments.
About the Author
Research Supporting This Work
An analysis examining market leadership, literature, and minority representation in enabling technology and remote supports.