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Oh no, it is a huge amount of people, and rapidly increasing, especially with the amount of wars breaking out, aging populations, etc. There are so many medical conditions that will make otherwise basic tasks unnecessarily hard.
Nearly a quarter of Americans have officially diagnosed arthritis. Obviously not all of those are in the arm, but kitchens also require you to stand. Which is one of the reasons why I buy frozen prechopped vegetables.
But that's before you get to people who have had strokes, which can frequently cause paralysis, usually on one side of the body - it affects 10-22% of stroke patients and someone has a stroke in the US every 40 seconds.
And those are just 2 issues. Think of how complex your body is, there are so many things that can and will go wrong. If you live in rural USA, 1 in 3 people have a disability.
When you are diagnosed with something long-term, you adapt or you get a carer or you die. Adapting is a hard, trial and error, expensive and time-consuming process filled with predators. But you would be surprised with the workarounds people find. I know a guy with no vision who cooks mostly by smell. He understandably hates the new trend of touch interface appliances.
Take any basic item you own, and add the word 'adaptive' and you will find products which may or may not help an individual situation at all.
Like this $78 adaptive chopping board. Look at the reviews too, they will tell you a lot about who this has helped and how. This one might be worth the money but there are also shitty bits of plastic sold to disabled people with 1000% mark-up because 'adaptive'. Like this scumlicker selling a mini folding table for $35
But it is possible for some to adapt their situation. Michael Caines is a chef who won 2 Michelin stars after he lost his arm in a crash. He uses his prosthetic arm to hold food down to chop, but I don't know how he manages carrying a large full pot or other tasks.
But you find ways. You have to. Chopped frozen veg is one of my many ways I work around some of my difficulties.
I thought you plucked that number out of your arse... Then I checked.
https://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/data_statistics/arthritis-related-stats.htm
That is batshit insane, I had no idea it was so high.
Thanks for all the details, definitely changed my mind.
Glad to have helped out!
Everyone always assumes it's an old retired person problem too, but it isn't, even if being worked to the bone for decades means they're obviously the biggest group of people with arthritis and other disabilities. We don't hear about it because people try real hard not to hire people with disabilities, including but not limited to the media.