Daily Living Aids - AgingSafelyGuide

Button Hooks and Zipper Pulls: Dressing Without Help

Buttons are a strange thing to lose. Nothing else about a shirt changes, but the small pinch-and-twist that fastens a …

Getting shoes on has an obvious tool. Getting them off does not, which is why so much of it happens …

A hardback held open for an hour is a surprisingly demanding thing to do. The book has weight, the pages …

Gardening is usually the last hobby anyone wants to give up, and it is often given up for reasons that …

Buttons are small, shirt cuffs fasten on the hand that is already busy, and a zip pull is a piece …

Getting dressed asks the body to bend to the floor, balance on one leg, reach behind the back, and pinch …

A pill organizer answers one question that gets harder to answer as the list of medications grows: did I already …

Putting on a shoe is a small movement that quietly demands a lot: bending forward past the knee, balancing while …

Small print turns up everywhere it is least convenient: medication labels, thermostat displays, the back of a food package, the …

A front door asks for two of the movements that fade earliest: pinching a small key between finger and thumb, …

A jar that will not open is a small problem with an outsized effect, because it turns a simple meal …

A reacher grabber is one of those items that looks trivial in a catalog and turns out to be the …