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ciTechCare research at the European Respiratory Society Congress

29 September 2023

Joana Cruz, Nádia Hipólito and Sara Pimenta were present at the ERS congress that took place in Milan, from September 9 to 13. This annual event gathers the world’s respiratory experts to showcase all the latest advances in respiratory medicine and science. ciTechCare was represented in this international and remarkable event by three researchers who have been working in the field of physical activity and Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), through the presentation of posters and as chair of several panel discussions. Joana Cruz, PhD, was a chair in two mini-symposia entitled ‘Exercise training, physical activity and self-management at home’ and ‘Rise of the machines: advances in home mechanical ventilation’. One of the points that

ciTechCare researchers integrate a pioneer guide in Speech Therapy

23 September 2023

Carina Pinto, Débora Franco, Inês Lopes and Sónia Pós de Mina, researchers, lecturers and members of the Portuguese Society of Speech Therapy are co-authors of the “Compendium of Speech Therapy: evaluate and intervene with evidence”, the most recent and extensive work written by experts, and the only one written in European Portuguese. This work addresses all areas of intervention of Speech Therapy and is structured in three main chapters – evaluation, intervention and case studies. Over 3 years, 70 members of the Portuguese Society of Speech Therapy have been building the work that aims to “fill all the needs of

‘Design, health and care’ – a joint initiative of LIDA, ciTechCare and Leiria Hospital Center in Arquivo bookstore

18 September 2023

On September 15, the exhibition “Design, Health and Care”, which took place in the Archive Bookstore, gathered researchers, health professionals, representatives of use patients and other guests. The goal was to inform about the SafeTrack project developed among ciTechCare, the Laboratory of Design and Arts (LIDA) and the Leiria Hospital Center (LHC). Sandra Neves, vice-director of LIDA and principal researcher of the project, presented the entire process inherent to the project, from the knowledge sharing between designers, health professionals and representatives of patients, to the final result – a device that can detect critical health states earlier, alerting health professionals

Opening of 3 calls for 12 research fellowships

5 September 2023

The Polytechnic of Leiria is now opening applications for (twelve) scientific research fellowship (BI) within the project “MorphoPlay – Playful strategies for assessing morphological knowledge (2022.02585.PTDC)”, financed by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). MorphoPlay will be a morphological knowledge assessment test for children from the 2ndto the 4th grade of the 1st cycle, with the aim of being applied in the clinical practice of Speech Therapists andeventually in the classroom, by Teachers of the 1st cycle. Candidates will contribute to: collectinglinguistic data in schools, with children in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of the 1st cycle

Interview with Helena Reis, coordinator and author of the book “Understanding Autism – from family thinking to technical thinking”

28 August 2023

With many years of experience as a researcher and lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Helena Reis, gave her first step as coordinator and author of the book that intends to inform and help those who live side by side with the autism spectrum disorder. After “a very hard and very challenging diagnosis”, comes the assistance of a multidisciplinary team work that brings together health professionals, educators and the family of these children who are in the beginning of this path and need information for a greater knowledge of the challenges of this condition – it is this collective participation that marks

Research in perception of aging published in the Spanish Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology

20 August 2023

A recent study entitled Physiotherapy Students’ Perceptions of Ageing – Playing narratives as a Pedagogical Innovation” intended to explore the adoption of new perspectives on ageing after the implementation of dynamic narratives in the first graduate year for physiotherapy students. Written by Marlene Rosa, Roberta Frontini (ciTechCare researchers) and Natália Martins, the exploratory qualitative study included 44 physiotherapy students from the School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic of Leiria. Two gaming sessions were performed to help students, as narrators, express their visions and ways to deal with the geriatrics field. Also, the main question asked those students were “What is your