What is the cost of equity in assistive technology? A tool for calculating assistive products and services.
Natasha Layton, Em Bould, Libby Callaway, Emma Friesen Osborne, Natasha Brusco
A perspective article describing a government costing spreadsheet for assistive technology products and services; no patients, no outcomes, no clinical findings.
What this paper is
This is a perspective article presenting the AT SERVE Tool, an Excel spreadsheet for calculating the cost of assistive technology products and the services needed to deliver them, with equity weighting for rural and Indigenous populations. It was developed in 2024–2025 to inform Australian government resource allocation for community-dwelling older adults. It reports no patients, no clinical outcomes, and no intervention effects. There is nothing here to change your practice on.
Declared interests
The work was commissioned by the Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (2023–2025). The authors declared financial support was received for the work and/or its publication.
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