For any family caring for a child or young adult with a disability, the underlying question.
that always exists is, what happens when I'm gone? Knowing how your child will cope once parental support is no longer available, the routines that have been built up, the information stored in the parents' heads, the network of carers and support that provide the necessary quality of life to your child could all be lost or disrupted.
Succession planning is therefore of paramount importance.
Ability 8, launched in 2017, addresses these problems.
As a subscription-based application, Ability 8 provides a centralised repository of information focused on the person with a disability.
From essential knowledge such as allergies, care procedures and funding details, through to inventories of their contacts or wardrobe, their goals and aspirations or employment history.
Once the client's profile has been set up, the family can then invite other users to access their private family environment.
This could be other family members, carers, support staff or friends of the client.
Then, using permissions, the family can give each user a fully customised access to view and or edit only the information that is relevant to their relationship with the client.
However, these features are only the basis of what the Ability 8 application can do for your family and the higher subscription levels help address a broader range of management options.
As the National Disability Insurance Scheme rolls out across Australia over the next three years, one of the options available to families is the self-management of funding.
The advantage of self-management is that, as costs of service providers are reduced or eliminated, up to 100% of the allocated funding will be available to the family.
On the other hand, the responsibility for families that have no experience managing their own funding can appear daunting, with no current tools or formal process to centralise this information.
Ability 8 bridges this gap, providing a centralised framework for a family to manage care and funding.
With an elevated subscription, the family can schedule carer shifts, generate time sheets and process payments all from within the application, as well as store a log of NDIS claims and see an overview of funding within monthly and annual budgets.
All tax and superannuation details can be added to the system to ensure full legal compliance and pay slips can be emailed to employees.
And as you can see, the layout of the site is nearly identical on tablet or mobile devices, so ease of use is consistent for all users.
Get confident you'll find Ability 8 invaluable, both as a repository of easily shared information and to enable more funds to go towards care rather than administration of services.
Sign up for your free month's trial today.