Hear Me Now vs OpenAssess

Hear Me Now is an app to help adults with cognitive impairments such as a learning disability to manage their health and care information, and to share information with their carers and relatives. Hear Me Now gives adults with cognitive impairments a voice, and helps to make them an active participant in their care. Hear Me Now is available for both phones and tablets. Features include: - Creation of multimedia content to capture what matters to someone, in the best format for that individual (video, images, audio, text, web links). - About Me to capture essential information. Compliant with the PRSB About Me information standard. - Store and share documents (Individual Support Plan, Health Action Plan, etc.) - Create appointments and reminders, ensure future appointments are not missed. - My Week feature for app users to plan and know what's happening now, and what's happening later. - Remote sharing with professional carers and families, with the ability for remote users to push content onto a user's app. - Organisation customers may remotely create and publish accessible questionnaires (using multimedia) for app users to respond directly in-app. - Organisation customers may create protected content (Curated Content) to share with app users to provide app users with guidance. For more information about Hear Me Now please contact Maldaba, a UK-based software development company: hmn_support@maldaba.co.uk

OpenAssess aims to provide ideas and resources to support persons with disabilities in living at home and being able to perform and participate in daily activities as independently as possible. OpenAssess mobile app is freely available and it can be used by both professionals (for example occupational therapists and physiotherapists) and non-professionals (for example beneficiaries, family members, people from the general community, local community, or other people that have an interest). OpenAssess contains questions related to areas in the house and daily activities that might be affected due to an injury or disability. Possible solutions are given about accessibility and assistive devices. Production cards for certain solutions (for example ramp, transfer aids, dressing aids, eating and drinking aids) are available.