BEST Suite: 5 apps in 1 app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Brain Education Strategies and Technology, Inc.
First release : 02 Oct 2017
App size: 40.91 Mb
The BEST Suite is designed to assist individuals with brain injury, concussion, stroke, and other cognitive challenges reclaim their independence. It was developed collaboratively by a professional with 30+ years of experience in the field of cognitive rehabilitation and brain injury survivors.
With consistent use, the BEST Suite helps you build and apply practical skills that:
• Improve your initiation, time management, and self-esteem
• Establish a sense of life balance and greater independence
• Increase your confidence by building on little successes
• Recognize strategies that will work for you
• Boost your overall productivity
• Gain control of your daily life
5 APPS IN 1
App 1 - PaceMyDay
• Plan your day for success
• Conserve the energy you have
• Complete tasks based on how you feel
• Figure out the tasks that take more energy
• Learn when to take breaks
• Recognize how your sleep impacts your day
App 2 - ReachMyGoals
• Use templates to you get started
• Set personalized, specific, measurable goals
• Break your goals down into manageable tasks
• Create your goals using a step-by-step guide
• Track your successes and challenges
• Set reminders for each task
App 3 - StrategizeMyLife
• Find strategies quickly
• Include personalized notes on how to use the strategy
• Create your own groups of strategies
• Assign strategies to more than one group
• Create your own list of favorite strategies
• Rate how well the strategy works for you
App 4 - CompleteMyToDos
• Easily create tasks with start and due dates
• Group your tasks into projects
• Set multiple alarms for each task
• Organize by color and emojis
• Add your own images to tasks
• Filter tasks by due date
App 5 - CueMyList
• Set a time limit in which to complete all items within a checklist
• Organize items in a checklist by using colorful headings
• Move from one item to the next in a checklist by setting a time limit for each item
• Record personal messages to prompt you to move from one item to the next
• Reorder checklist items quickly
• Play music from your device while
UNIQUE FEATURES:
• 5 apps in 1
• Information is shared among four of the BEST Suite apps: PaceMyDay, ReachMyGoals, StrategizeMyLife, and CompleteMyToDos for an integrated, time-saving solution
• You can use each app independently
• Each app integrates principles of self-regulation to help users build on daily successes
• Reminders are shared across the four integrated apps (i.e., PaceMyDay, ReachMyGoals, StrategizeMyLife, and CompleteMyToDos)
• Ongoing development and testing with the assistance of individuals living with brain injuries, stroke, PTSD, and others with cognitive challenges ensures that the BEST Suite stays up to date and relevant
Integration with iPhone’s Health App
BEST Connections does not release health-related data collected from Apples iOS Health app by the BEST Suite app. When you select the Health App, your heart rate, step count, and sleep data will be retrieved from Apples Health app and used to correlate that information with information gathered in the BEST Suite app. Data is not written to the Health app nor is it shared other than in a report which you may choose to generate and share with others.
Development of this application was supported in part by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Community Living, Health and Function (LiveWell RERC) funded by a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under (grant no. 90RE5028).