The Isolation Solution

Social distancing policies enacted the world over during the COVID-19 pandemic have left many people socially isolated. Your challenge is to develop innovative solutions to combat social isolation.

Convid +50

Summary

A simple and easy-to-use chat app for seniors to help them communicate during social isolation

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our proposal consists of a simplified chat application in order to make it easier to use and access for elderly people, thus being able to bring them closer to loved ones during the period of social isolation.

How We Developed This Project

Social isolation is one of the measures to cope with the disease and with that, the feeling of loneliness can become common. Elderly people adapted to new technologies during social isolation, thus reducing the distance between family and friends and making life lighter during this difficult period. For this audience, the internet offers benefits not only for practicality, but also for the opportunity to use reasoning and maintain or even improve mental health in countless ways through the stimulation of brain activity that it allows.

The name of the project comes from the similarity between the covid name and the Portuguese word invitation "convite".

Project Demo
Data & Resources

We consulted several NASA databases (https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/social-isolation) on isolation in space in addition to research in Brazil, on isolation in old age and during the pandemic

Tags
#app #senior #socialisolation #communication
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.