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Adaptive clothing is for people experiencing difficulty dressing themselves due to an inability to manipulate closures, such as buttons and zippers, or due to a lack of a full range of motion required for self-dressing.  Adaptive clothes are also designed to help caregivers of people with dementia, by offering rear-closure that can't be accessed by their care recipients.

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The features of adaptive clothing include: flat seams, snaps, velcro, stretchy fabric, roomy design, longer rise in the back, elastic waist, and other features to increase comfort and reduce effort when dressing.

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Adaptive clothing adapts to the nature of the disease to help both individuals and their caregivers.

Incontinence:

The challenge is reduced bladder control and urgency. Adaptive clothing needs to be easily removed and needs to accommodate incontinence aids discreetly and comfortably.

Alzheimer's Disease:

The challenge is that Individual may disrobe at inappropriate times. To address that adaptive clothing has locking or closures in the back.

Parkinson's Disease and Arthritis: 

The challenge is loss of fine motor skills. Adaptive clothing have Velcro or magnetic buttons, instead of traditional closures.

Paraplegia and Quadriplegia:

The challenge is inability to bend muscles or move joints. Adaptive clothing have open back eliminating the need to rotate/bend muscles or joints.

Edema:

The challenge is swelling of feet and legs makes it difficult to wear conventional footwear or pants. Adaptive Shoes and pants have adjustable sizes and non-restrictive closures.

Successful adaptive clothing looks like conventional attire.

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Buck and Buck does provide a comprehensive guide of adaptive clothing, albeit it is mostly about their products, it also has a lot of good general information based on different health conditions.

Lovetoknow has an article on adaptive clothing.  

Disabled-World has information about adaptive clothing and links to manufacturers and size conversion charts.  

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