“The key to successful aging is the ability to adjust to its physiological constraints by remaining psychologically and emotionally healthy through such techniques as selection, optimization and compensation. Selection refers to the reduction of goals while optimization is the attempt to perfect remaining skills."
Besides the irritation of not being able to twist open screw top bottles, I have been noticing the many other ways my ability to use my hands to do things is affected. And often the problem is not strength of my fingers, but wrist and forearm strength.
Two years ago, just after I had recovered from Covid, I started to have problems with walking balance especially when visibilty was poor. Then I developed a slight tremor in my right hand.