I just met an elderly woman in the hospital today. She has been bedridden for a month, in serious but stable condition. In speaking with her, the thing she longs for the most, besides company, is something to read. Books, magazines, anything positive, uplifting and informative.<p>What I'm suggesting to all entrepreneurs is you could be doing a service in your community, by handing out magazines and books to the many patients who enjoy reading. They have the time to read it.<p>It would also be an opportunity to bring awareness to your own brand. If it's content you produce, maybe you could package that up and distribute that with a stack of other magazines and books (as long as it's not too esoteric).<p>The main reason you would want to do this is to bring relief and a smile to the faces of those who are sick and injured. They are often bored and lonely. Yet, depending on what you love to do and what your passion is, you might be able to share that as well.<p>Maybe someone here can work with this idea.
Honest questions (and from these questions you can probably tell that I haven't spent much time in Hospitals):<p>1 - Are you saying mere access to content is the problem? Do Hospitals have limited reading material? Do libraries not provide outreach services to patients? Do friends/family not bring content?<p>2 - Is there a need and/or market to create/aggregate content specific for this audience?<p>3 - Anything more specific about the content besides being uplifting? Seems like a broad range of content is needed, which is proving a challenge to my brain.<p>4 - Is there a technology angle to this at all? Hospitals aren't well connected, old people (who account for a lot of people in Hospitals I'd assume) aren't very tech savvy. I mean, given your audience here, is there something we can do at a technical level to help?