Elderly cutlery (cutlery for people with restricted mobility)

Senior cutlery is specially designed cutlery with large handles that can be held easily and securely in the hand even with restricted mobility. It is also called Cutlery for people with reduced mobility designated. The development of this cutlery is not too old and follows the trend to enable this group of people to go about their everyday lives independently with easy-to-use objects.

What is senior cutlery?

The handles of the cutlery are much thicker and rounder. They fit into the natural, only slightly angled shape of the human hand and are based on minimal mobility.

Elderly cutlery or cutlery for people with restricted mobility is cutlery that is specially adapted to the mobility of the hands and fingers.

Some diseases such as gout, rheumatism or Parkinson's disease make it more difficult to use everyday objects such as cutlery with increasing [[age and progression. Since cutlery is thin, the elderly and people with limited mobility can no longer hold it independently. You lose the ability to eat independently and are dependent on constant help with this elementary activity.

Elderly cutlery has thicker handles, which means that it can be held and used even by people whose hands and fingers are barely mobile. The thickness of the handles can be adjusted to suit the condition of the hands. For seniors, for whom normal cutlery has just become too cumbersome, there are relatively ordinary looking senior cutlery. For more advanced difficulties, however, there are senior cutlery with very thick, round handles that hardly require any movement of the hands.

Shapes, types & types

Elderly cutlery differs in its design from cutlery for people with restricted mobility. Seniors can often still grasp everyday objects relatively independently and hold them firmly enough to use them. That is why the handles of the cutlery are just a little thicker and rounder than those of normal cutlery. Many designs even fit into every household without attracting attention.

Cutlery for people with restricted mobility, on the other hand, is based on a disease that makes it difficult to grip small, delicate objects. The handles of the cutlery are much thicker and rounder. They fit into the natural, only slightly angled shape of the human hand and are based on minimal mobility. Even if the underlying disease worsens in the course of life, gets worse in batches or the affected patient can hardly grasp at all, he still has the ability to eat independently and without outside help.

Structure & functionality

Cutlery for people with reduced mobility and cutlery for senior citizens do not differ in their structure and functionality from normal cutlery with which the person concerned has lived for a lifetime. There are forks, knives, spoons and sometimes even more special cutlery such as fish knives in different sizes.

The difference starts with the handle, which is more or less larger, thicker and more rounded. If the person concerned wants to stick to their previous cutlery, there is also the option of equipping the handles with special pads that make their shape easier to grasp. This has the advantage that a complete new set of cutlery does not have to be bought and that more specific cutlery items can be kept - they are only slightly modified.

Cutlery for people with reduced mobility and cutlery for senior citizens is usually dishwasher safe and can be purchased in a variety of designs. The shape of the handles makes it easy to pick up and hold it tightly enough to cut food and eat it on your own. Handles for attaching to your own, ordinary cutlery are simply removed again after use and the cutlery can be maintained as usual. This means that it can still be used by all family members without any problems.

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Medical & health benefits

Cutlery for people with restricted mobility and cutlery for the elderly are everyday aids that, although not prescribed, can be recommended by the attending physician with increasing age or the severity of the underlying disease. The cutlery is recommended for diseases such as gout, rheumatism, Parkinson's or after serious injuries to the hands with involvement of the nerve tracts.

These and other diseases can impair the ability of the hands to grip and the mobility of the finger joints so much that normal movement of the hands is no longer possible. This can limit everyday life so much that the affected person can no longer eat in batches due to the thin shape of normal cutlery. The cutlery should make it easier to live independently, as older people in particular often live alone.

Elderly cutlery is often not designed differently than conventional cutlery and is intended to provide relief for minor mobility restrictions. Seniors often develop restrictions in the healthy mobility of their hands even without illness: this is age-related, as the vital forces decline. The adapted cutlery makes everyday life easier for them and can ensure that they no longer feel pain in their hands due to knives and forks that are too small, or that everyday meals become too strenuous for them. Since senior cutlery looks hardly any different, many older people like to use them in order not to strain their hands unnecessarily and to cope with everyday life with less effort.