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The other side of the physical assistance the various devices and modifications for the person needing them is the psychological benefit of still being able to perform the activity by themselves, even if needing a device: e.g. putting on socks by themselves with an assist tool is still putting on their own socks. The alternative is of having someone else put the socks on them. This can be psychologically painful because now you, an adult, are being reduced to the state of a helpless infant.


Exactly

Last year I suffered a bad backache, and one time I was trying to wear socks, managed to put one on, then pain was too much and I asked my younger son to put on the second. I can't explain the feeling then. My eyes were teary.

Now I really appreciate being able to put on my own socks unassisted.


Medical problems that hit us time to time are good eye openers for us in preparing our homes and surroundings in a better , more realistic ways.