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Millions of people living with arthritis know how the condition can cause pain and fatigue which can make everyday tasks difficult.
Arthr, a new social venture powered by Versus Arthritis, is developing new products for and with people with arthritis to make daily life easier.
Researchers spoke to several hundred people living with arthritis and heard common themes in the everyday challenges people were facing. These included daily activities like getting dressed, getting washed and cooking. The list was extensive.
They also found that many existing products on the market to help with these everyday tasks just weren’t good enough. Some were not functional, and the design was often old-fashioned and medical.
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Mike1 MemberPosts:1,913
Signed up and sent a suggestion in.
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Sharon_K ModeratorPosts:334
Launching Arthr's change making community
Byjoining the ChangeMaker community, you’ll be part of a network of passionate, like-minded people who want to contribute the solutions to everyday challenges.Sign up now.
You’ll have a chance to take part in research, test products in development, and co-create new product ideas. With your help, Arthr can make more and better products to help more people live well with arthritis.
Arthr a new social venture powered by Versus Arthritis, is developing new products for and with people with arthritis to make daily life easier.
People are at the heart of everything Arthr does, and those with arthritis are involved every step of way, from concept development to testing products. And you can be a part of this journey too.
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Mike1 MemberPosts:1,913
I sent this idea in which I have been using for a while:https://community.versusarthritis.org/discussion/50318/putting-a-coat-on#latest
Nice reply back:
Hi Mike,
Thank you so much for sending this idea through - it is really useful and definitely something we are discussing looking into.
I have forwarded this over to the product team.
Thank you,
Ellen
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Sharon_K ModeratorPosts:334
Hi Mike
this is brilliant, wonderful to see the community putting in ideas, thank you so much
Best Wishes
Sharon
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Lilymary MemberPosts:1,395
有人有任何戴袜子的技巧吗?我真的为此感到挣扎,因为我不能再伸出左脚而没有痛苦。
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Mike1 MemberPosts:1,913
I use a sock helper, there are many types available just Google "sock helper for the disabled", they are all around the £10 mark.
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Lilymary MemberPosts:1,395
Thanks Mike, I knew someone would have come up with something. Presumably a long handled shoe horn will eliminate the shoe acrobatics?
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Mike1 MemberPosts:1,913
Yep, a long handled shoe horn is a must for putting shoes on, I only wear slip-on boots as I cannot do laces up.
Don't forget that if you are having problems you can contact Adult Social Care at your Council and they will send out an Occupational Therapist who can assess your needs and suggest items of equipment to help. They may even be able to provide things free of charge; they gave me a recliner, perch stool for the kitchen, sorted out a wet room, put up hand rails and so forth. They verbally recommended monkey bars for over the bed but could not provide them as apparently they are a safety risk (I disputed that as I am a Professionally qualified H&S Practitioner, at least I was till I had to give up work), anyway I bought one myself and it helps getting in and out of bed.
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Lilymary MemberPosts:1,395
老实说,将鞋子和袜子放在右脚上,没问题。腿非常有义务将自己陷入我要求的任何位置。左脚?pffft。“你没到我附近的伴侣。继续臀部,你告诉'er'。”
So I'm going to tie a loop through the zip on my boots so I can pull it up with a crochet hook, and laces and buckles I leave loose enough that I can just slide my foot in and out and hope they don't fall off, but the shoe horn will be my secret weapon for recalcitrant shoes!
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Mike1 MemberPosts:1,913
Lilymary, you can get elastic laces for your shoes and boots, then you can leave them done up and use the long shoe horn to slide your feet in. They are cheap, just Google them.
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