Pain
Opioid use
Anger
Mood (PHQ-9 and GAD-7)
Substance abuse
Dyscontrol (Managing emotions)
Sleep 
Cognitive function
Level of Disability (MPAI)
Social isolation
Vitals
Activity level
Diet/Nutrition
Medication adherence

For those looking for unique surveying/data needs, CreateAbility’s team of talented coders and developers can provide custom surveys at an additional cost.

Curious as to how you can unleash the power of data for better outcomes? Download the brochure on the right panel of our virtual booth!

MeMinder
MeMinder is CreateAbility’s answer to those with executive functioning challenges post TBI and helps your patients with the alerts and instruction they need to return to independence.

Schedule your patient’s daily to-do’s and monitor their progress/setbacks in real-time on your clinician dashboard.

Choose tasks from our library of over 200+ pre-created tasks in audio, talking pictures, or full video demonstration modes or pull out your phone, record a custom instruction of your own – and simply download it to your patient’s daily list!

Learn more here or download the MeMinder brochure in the right panel of our virtual booth!

Flourish
Flourish is a person-centered planning app that simplifies the process of establishing goals for your patients by breaking them into more actionable steps.

The app measures progress at each stage of the person-centered care plan and equips staff with a way to manage plans remotely and in real-time. Flourish also generates documentation necessary for annual reporting.

This mobile app helps your patients:

Keep their goals in the forefront of their minds as they move forward in their health journey and keeps them motivated and engaged in the process.

Stay on task with all of the smaller goals they need to accomplish each day in order to achieve the larger ones.

Learn more here or download the Flourish brochure on the right panel of our virtual booth!

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Technology can play a very helpful role in times, such as these. While technology is never a 100% replacement for human interaction, here are a few ways you can utilize technology solutions during a staff shortage to keep afloat:

1. Remote supports can allow you to monitor more than one person at a time. Many technology solutions like MeMinder and Evalu8Now allow care providers and job coaches the ability to schedule activities and monitor the progress or setbacks of one, or multiple clients in between face-to-face visits to ensure their clients are both safe and productive.
   
   
2. Task prompting solutions can help keep your clients on track with their responsibilities in non-supervised periods. Clients that lead semi-independent lives often need supervision simply to ensure that they are doing what needs to be done each day to take care of themselves. These are the perfect candidates for task prompters, such as MeMinder, that will provide reminders and instruction in the absence of their caregiver.
   
   
3. Additional communication tools can help you quickly and effectively check-in when you are unable to physically be with your clients. When the need for a quick check-in or follow up call needs to take place, technology can provide a time-saving alternative that keeps communication times tight.  Solutions like avatalk offer a fun and engaging way for care providers and job coaches to ask a question via (anonymous) text – and converts it into an avatar-led format on the client’s device where they can respond rapidly.  (See how it works here)
   
   
4. Remote supports can reduce the number of time-consuming crises by proactively addressing your clients’ wellbeing.  Technology solutions like Evalu8Now can provide non-intrusive, avatar-led check-ins on many concerns such as management of anxiety, anger, sleep, medication adherence, and more. When the client takes a quick survey and the score identifies the need, they can transition into interventions to help them manage while the system alerts staff so that they may call or visit and ward off crises before it they happen.
   
   
5. Assistive technologies can help reduce the amount of time it takes to onboard new staff. CreateAbility’s Flourish and Employment Pathfinder provide a foundation of client background and knowledge that helps new staff members know how to work best with clients, their preferences, triggers, talents and abilities. Entering into a staff/client relationship armed with this information, staff are able to settle more efficiently into their new positions.
   
   
6. Save time spent doing reporting and documentation.
   How much time do you spend updating reports and reporting documentation to requiring agencies? The right technology with reporting can help you reduce this burden, freeing you up to do the things that only you can do.

If your organization is facing staffing challenges in the current job market and you need to fill the gaps, reach out to us at info@createabilityinc.com and let’s explore the ways we can help you manage these times while maintaining your normal level-of-care you extend to your clients.

Until next time!

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When we peel back the layers of both good and bad job experiences, job satisfaction/dissatisfaction seem to be centered around three crucial components:

Making good job matches. Does the job align with my values and likes? Does it minimize the things I do not like or am not good at? Is this something I can succeed at and grow with?  Are my expectations and my employer’s expectations congruent?

CreateAbility’s solution: Employment Pathfinder
Make more sustainable job matches by gaining insight into important factors necessary to find the jobs best suited for the people you serve. Survey job readiness, explore interests and discover potential career paths. Assessments can be taken remotely and results can be wirelessly transmitted to CreateAbility’s BEAM cloud for real-time retrieval.

Having all the components I need to do my job. Am I given enough time and instruction to perform my job responsibilities well? Do I have the tools I need to do well at my job?

CreateAbility’s solution: MeMinder
MeMinder is a state-of-the art task prompter that helps employees independently stay on task and have access to the instructions they need to do their jobs. Prompts can be audio-only, talking pictures, or full video demonstration. Job coaches can choose from our library of over 200+ prompts or easily create custom prompts. The corresponding Task Tracker is a dashboard customized to the needs of today’s job coaches and touts the most efficient task analysis automation on the market!

Managing health and well-being at work. Am I satisfied with my work? Is something happening at work (or at home) that is making me feel anxious or depressed on-the-job? Do the people around me at work care about me and/or how I’m feeling?

CreateAbility’s solution: Evalu8NOW
Evalu8Now is a powerful combination of web-based assessments and interventions that allows vocational rehabilitation professionals visibility into their employees’ mental health, wellbeing, and job satisfaction between face-to-face visits. Armed with real-time information, job coaches and developers can ward off crises before an employee quits their job; increasing sustainability of and employee’s work experience. 

Utilizing solutions that create a more well-rounded approach to the employment experience for people with intellectual disabilities can help create more satisfying and therefore, sustainable job opportunities. When the employee’s satisfaction “cup” is full, additional benefits flow:

• Less manpower needed for employees that can be redirected into transition new employees.
• Less time running from location to location solving problems and providing repetitive training.
• Less re-placements = increased job coach morale.
• Longer employment terms can equate to more money for the organization.

If your organization is committed to establishing and/or perfecting your vocational rehabilitation and transition-to-employment processes, please reach out to us at info@createabilityinc.com.

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“The pandemic made the use of technology is becoming more commonplace in the lives, homes and jobs of people with intellectual disabilities. Not only are they enjoying it; they are succeeding at it!” CreateAbility Founder and President, Steve Sutter, states. “Making all of our apps accessible on every operating system is the focus so that everyone can be empowered through technology.”

Employment Pathfinder reflects both the company’s mission of helping people with intellectual and developmental disabilities flourish beyond their current capabilities and aligns with their belief in “employment-for-all”. Additionally, Employment Pathfinder helps vocational rehabilitation professionals and job coaches make more sustainable job matches for the people they serve.  Job seekers answer assessment questions and select preferences using a web-form, or the App, while staff can also weigh in on their opinions. A report is then generated for $49.95 per job seeker, that provides a gap analysis, and details actionable strategies, tactics and approaches to address these gaps.

To access the free iOS version of the app, please follow this link for purchase through The App Store. For use on Android devices, please follow this link to the Google Play Store. 

Should you need to acquire multiple assessments, please contact CreateAbility at info@createabilityinc.com for group/discounted rates.

About CreateAbility Concepts, Inc.
CreateAbility strives to improve the dignity, security, and quality of life for people who are trying to maintain varying degrees of independence, but who need assistive technologies. Our mission is to create innovative products that help them flourish beyond their current capability. Our interactive health and safety monitoring software solutions help caregivers deliver an affordable blend of care, 24/7 that nurtures independence. We serve caregivers, agencies, and organizations devoted to helping older adults, people with intellectual disabilities, brain injuries, and behavioral health issues.

Contact:
Kerri Pinger
Marketing & Communications Manager
CreateAbility Concepts, Inc.
info@createabilityinc.com

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What is your number and how do you handle the excess?

In a time where providers and agencies are facing staffing challenges, this rationing scenario is getting more prevalent as care providers’ and job coaches’ “plates” are more full than ever. Many are turning to technology to offload some of the manual and less-demanding tasks to enhance their efficiency.

A couple of examples of this are:

Reporting and documentation.
These are time-consuming and antiquated processes. Technology does both the documenting and the storage and retrieval for you!

Check-ins that can be completed less-intrusively.
For clients that are more independent, a technology check-in a couple of times between face-to-face visits can free up travel time for care providers and job coaches.

Troubleshooting.
Care providers and job coaches spend a lot of time running between locations to trouble shoot when often times, assistive technology can provide the prompting and instruction they need to get things done on their own.

In my own life, technology has enabled me to offload about 40% of the daily tasks that don’t require face-to-face involvement.

Are you struggling to ration your energy to accomplish all of your daily to-do’s? How many items can you handle in a day – and is it possible?

If you would benefit from a reduction in your/your staff’s workload, please call us at 317.578.6670 to discuss how assistive technology can help!

Until next time,

Stephen Sutter

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