Covid-19
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Website to help break the habit of face touching
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-30 12:43
Designers Mike Bodge and Isaac Blankensmith and technologist Brian Moore where trying to follow the health and safety measures suggested by the WHO to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, they were finding it difficult to avoid face ...
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Team creates platform to connect healthcare workers in need with volunteers
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-05-07 10:56
A multidisciplinary group of volunteers built HospitalHero, a platform to connect healthcare workers in need of meals, supplies or anything else with volunteers able to help. Through the website, healthcare workers can request help and volunteers can ...
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Student creates movement to encourage patients and healthcare workers fighting Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-02 11:10
In 2018, Gina was diagnosed with acanthamoeba keratitis and had to be in quarantine for a month. During that time, she says: “I experienced an incredible amount of loneliness and anxiety, and so it meant the world to me whenever I received a get-well-soon ...
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Volunteers create platform to provide meals to people in need
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-04 18:32
A team of volunteers created OpenMeal, a platform that supports two vulnerable communities: restaurants struggling to keep their businesses open and families struggling to get food. The platform was developed during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the team of ...
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Solidarity movement turns caravans into resting places for healthcare workers
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2021-01-25 17:50
In Portugal, at the beginning of 2021, the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic put tremendous pressure on the hospitals and healthcare services. Hospitals were exceeding their capacity, healthcare professionals were overworked and lacking appropriate ...
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Students create game to teach about correct use of protective equipment
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-02 15:52
A group of college students from Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, created “EPIs contra o COVID-19” (PPE against COVID-19) an online quiz that is meant to help people understand how to correctly wear personal protective equipment. The quiz is ...
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Facebook group keeps people with disabilities connected during the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-13 18:23
Many severely disabled people rely on the help of other to perform their daily life activities. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the population being advised to stay home and practice social distancing, people with disabilities had to face the ...
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Nursing homes launch a request for pen pals to keep their residents connected during the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-08 18:57
For elderly people living in nursing homes and assisted care facilities, the Covid-19 pandemic had a very negative side-effect. Visits were not allowed during this period, to prevent the spread of the pandemic, so these senior were feeling very lonely and ...
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Students create non-profit to deliver smart devices to the elderly and low-income communities
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-13 18:37
During the Covid-19 pandemic, seniors were one of the demographic groups most at risk. And, while those living in nursing home and assisted living facilities were taken care of by a network of support, many other seniors who lived by themselves were ...
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