Family Tech Readiness Assessment
Everyone means well. That's not the same as being coordinated.
When one parent's care involves several family members, good intentions aren't a system. The Family Tech Readiness Assessment maps your family's current "layer" of technology sophistication, then recommends the right next options — with priorities, rough timing, and cost estimates — based on your specific situation. New, affordable technology for physical and cognitive challenges is emerging constantly. We track the solutions that matter and match them to where your family actually is.
For: a family evaluating technology options for a family member's care
$149 one-time — includes a consultation
What it measures
Five layers, scored independently
Families are rarely uniformly ready. Most are strong in one layer and have never considered another, so the report scores all five separately rather than reducing your family to a single number or a level.
Prepared
The groundwork everything else depends on — working internet, accounts someone can actually get into, and a record of what exists.
Safe
The things that catch a bad moment: fall detection, emergency response, stove and kitchen safety, door and exit awareness.
Assistive
Technology that makes an ordinary day easier rather than an emergency survivable — lighting, voice control, reminders, and hearing or vision support.
Aware
How the family finds out that something has changed, without anyone having to remember to check in.
Connected
Whether the people involved are working from the same information, and what happens to the arrangement when the person coordinating it is unavailable.
What you receive
Recommendations matched to where your family actually is
The report starts from what you already have rather than from a catalogue. It maps your current layer, identifies the gaps that matter for this resident, and recommends specific next options — each with a priority, rough timing, and a cost estimate, so the family can decide what to do first rather than debating everything at once.
- Your family's coordination score, and the five layer benchmarks behind it
- An inventory of the technology already in place
- The gaps between that and what this situation calls for
- Device approaches with tradeoffs, costs, and where each one goes in the home
- What happens when the person coordinating care is unavailable
- A phased action plan, with the budget context to go with it
Questions
About the technology
New tools for physical and cognitive challenges launch constantly, and no single list stays complete for long. We continuously track and vet solutions that hold up — reliable, reasonably priced, and actually usable by the people who need them — and update our recommendations as the landscape shifts. Your report reflects the best options we know of today, matched to your situation. It is a strong starting point for the conversation, not the final word — and we are always glad to talk through options beyond what is listed.
Not sure which assessment fits?
One looks at the home, the other at how a family coordinates care. Bob will tell you which one answers your question — and if it is neither, he will say so.
Talk it through