Doing up a stiff jeans button one handed, or with painful fingers, is where dressing independence usually breaks down. The Butler buttoner has a long handle and a metal hook that pulls the button through the buttonhole for the client.
The long handle gives extra purchase, so it copes with heavy metal jeans buttons as well as shirt buttons. The hook can be squeezed together to fit through a small buttonhole, which makes it usable on cuffs and collars as well as on trousers. The moulded handle is thick enough to sit in a whole hand, so a client with arthritis, hemiplegia or reduced pinch grip can hold it comfortably.
It is very light, which matters for a client with shoulder pain or low endurance who dresses seated on the bed. For clients who fasten buttons every morning, it is a small piece of kit that removes a daily point of frustration.
