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• Italian municipality collects initiatives addressing citizens over 65 during the Covid-19 outbreak

  Solution Shared by Sara Di Fabio on 2020-05-04 15:20

  

  The municipality of Milan created an email address, ‘ milanoaiuta@comune.milano.it ’, to collect all the initiatives for citizens over 65, people affected by chronic conditions, and immunosuppressed people. Initiative that are organised in the area with ...

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• Neighbour organises socially distance communal dance session to help keep the morale up

  Solution Shared by Sara Di Fabio on 2020-04-07 14:59

  

  As the coronavirus crisis continues, people in the UK are doing trying to help those in need and inject some joy into life. In Cheshire, residents on a street are doing socially distanced communal dance sessions to exercise during lockdown. Janet Woodcock ...

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• Healthcare workers wear smiling photos of themselves to ease patients with Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-14 10:36

  

  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of infected patients were being hospitalized throughout the world. And they were being treated by healthcare workers wearing full protective gear, including masks, protective shields and hoods. And not being able to ...

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• Girl builds device to help people with cerebral palsy communicate

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-10-28 18:24

  

  Ergo-Egg is a writing aid gadget that enables cerebral palsy patients to communicate. She was driven to create this device because, in her country, there is a lot of stigma around this condition. “People with cerebral palsy [CP] have the exact same brain ...

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• Mother invents app to help autistic son

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2015-10-07 16:53

  

  The app consists of a game for individuals with Autism and other special needs to recognize emotions to help improve social skills by recognizing the emotion, the cause behind the emotion and speedup recognition. It has great geography fun as well as the ...

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• Student creates app to improve communication and care coordination for caregivers

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2018-03-21 16:39

  

  “We created CareZare because we are family caregivers. When our family matriarch, Nannie, was diagnosed with dementia, we leapt into action. But it quickly became apparent that we were facing a steep learning curve. We needed to climb it, fast, all while ...

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• WatcHelp: Mom invents an app to increase the autonomy of her autistic son in the everyday life

  Solution Shared by Elise Thioliere on 2017-05-18 14:35

  

  Estelle is the mother of a child born in 2005, called Allan. Allan is autistic, he isn’t able to do tasks alone. He has to have someone to help him in the everyday life. In fact, people with special needs are very often deprived of what we care the most ...

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• Deaf student invents new scientific sign language terms

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-10-23 10:20

  

  Some scientific words, like “deoxyribonucleotide”, are very difficult to spell in sign language. It was already tough for Liam to keep up with all the college workload, let alone to spell these scientific words. Although there are some British Sign ...

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• Father invents app for autistic daughter

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2017-03-14 11:27

  

  “We discovered Sadie was autistic when she was two as she was not responding and interacting like you would expect at that age. It was a shock, but rather than feeling sorry for ourselves we decided we would do everything possible for Sadie,” he explained ...

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• Father develops app to manage his son who suffers with ADHD with morning routines

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-06-27 15:15

  

  Morning routines- getting up, getting dressed, eat breakfast, etc., are always tough on Leo because of ADHD and also on Pierre. In order to minimise his son’s stress and his own, he came up with Brili, a mobile app to help with morning routines. The app ...

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