Clothing For Special Needs
Adaptive clothing is specialised clothing that is modified to enable easier dressing for people with a disability. The clothing is modified to help people with a high degree of disability and their carers or to assist individuals with a lower degree of disability to dress independently.
Adaptive clothing can benefit people of all ages with disorders or natural ageing such as the following:
- Arthritis
- Cerebral Palsy
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Motor Neurone Disease (MND)
- Oedema
- Incontinence
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Parkinson's Disease
- Stroke
- Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
- Brain Injury
- Muscular Dystrophy (MD)
- Contractures
Adaptive clothing typically incorporates flat seams to reduce friction, discrete adaptations to make the clothing look as normal as possible, easy access with snaps, Velcro, or stretchy fabric, roomy design to accommodate incontinence aids, longer rise in the back to accommodate sitting in wheelchairs, elastic waist for increased comfort, and reduced effort when dressing.
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