Carers: Smarter Shifts: How Voice Assistants Can Save You Time and Energy
Empowering support workers with the knowledge and tools to seamlessly integrate voice-assistant technology into their daily routines, our course aims to enhance efficiency, reduce risk, and elevate the quality of care. By focusing on practical, user-friendly strategies, we envision a future where support workers are more confident, clients experience greater independence, and the caregiving environment is safer and more responsive to everyone’s needs.
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- By Allen Wade
Family: Learn how to set up voice control, visual aids, and safety routines in under 2 hours.
This course is designed for support workers, carers, and coordinators who want to confidently use smart technology to reduce stress, prevent falls, and promote independence — without needing an IT background. Through simple walkthroughs and real-world examples, you’ll learn how to: - Set up voice assistants (like Google, Siri, and Alexa) for daily tasks - Use visual calendar tools to reduce confusion and improve memory - Create automated lighting and smart plug routines for safety and ease - Customize phones and tablets for blind, low vision, and MS clients - Reduce micro-tasks and client dependency using smart apps and systems Whether you're supporting someone with Motion impairment, vision loss, or cognitive fatigue, this course gives you the tools to make a difference — fast. By the end, you'll have a ready-to-use setup plan you can apply in homes, disability care, or funded support work.
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- By Allen Wade
ICT: Customising Smart Environments
This is not another IT course—it’s a pathway into purpose-driven work that changes lives. Built from lived experience and grounded in real-world tools, this course shows you how to use smart devices, cloud accounts, and digital routines to support the independence, safety, and dignity of people with cognitive or physical impairments. You’ll learn to build stable, hands-free environments using voice assistants, tablets, and cloud-connected systems—without needing expensive hardware or unnecessary complexity. By the end, you won’t just know how to set up a smart speaker. You’ll know how to design a support-ready digital home—one that reduces daily friction, minimises carer reliance, and gives people confidence to live on their own terms. ⸻ Who this is for: • IT professionals ready to do meaningful, human-focused work • Techs looking to transition into supported living, aged care, or wellness support • Anyone who believes technology should serve people—not confuse them
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- By Allen Wade
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