Home Health Aids for Weakness in the Hands

Weakness in the hands can be age related or the result of an injury or disease. This condition can make everyday tasks such as dressing, cooking and cleaning difficult for you. Fortunately, there are a few home health aids that are designed to assist you to lead a fairly normal life despite the lack of strength in your hands.

Gripping Aids

• Help holding mug

  Grippers have been devised to help if you have weak hands to make it easier to open medication bottles, hold on to exercise equipment or handle tools. These aids range from simple to quite sophisticated systems. They can also help you pick up utensils, hold cups and mugs, hold a toothbrush or razor and other self-care essentials.

Dressing Aids

• Buttons

  Every day you are faced with buttons, zippers or fasteners just to get dressed. Aids have been developed to make dressing and undressing much easier. There are button hooks, zipper pulls and rings, long shoe horns, leg lifts and stocking aids available to make dressing less of a challenge for you.

Kitchen Aids

• Peeler with large grip

  Fixing food for yourself can also be a challenge when you have weak hands. Jar openers, large grips on peelers, ladles, knives and suction cups on cutting boards help by reducing the strain on your hands and wrists. Spring loaded scissors help you to open packages by eliminating the need to open the scissors and decreasing the pressure when closing them.