COVID-19: Happy & Healthy app for iPhone and iPad

‘Covid-19: Happy & Healthy’ from Starfish Labs helps people with learning difficulties and disabilities and their carers to explore ways to stay Happy and Healthy during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond, complementing the other apps in this series: Covid-19: Staying Safe and Covid-19: Social Space. Content can be viewed in English or Welsh.

Although aimed at people with learning difficulties the content is equally applicable to anyone who wants to live a more healthy lifestyle – both during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic.

Users can work through the simplified content alone or with a friend, parent, teacher or carer, and access the more detailed resources and links as a source of ideas for activities in the key areas of:

• Staying Well
• Eating Well
• Being Active
• Sleeping Better
• Avoiding risky substances
• Looking After Your Feelings

The guidance on staying healthy in body and mind has been developed in collaboration with a UK Public Health GP Champion for Physical Activity along with simplified guidance and Makaton symbol content developed, simplified and tested in collaboration with staff, residents and students at Derwen College – an Ofsted Excellent rated Special Educational Needs College.

In the general guidelines content, the app uses simple cartoons and Makaton symbols © The Makaton Charity - with Makaton content supplied by Derwen College, to convey information in an easy-to-understand format.

This app has been part funded by Welsh Government. Starfish Labs acknowledge the support of Welsh Government and Derwen College in the creation of this app. All imagery, graphics, voice content, workflow system and development © Copyright Starfish Labs 2021.