Understanding our Products

We'd like to define a few terms to help you understand our specialty adaptive clothing designs to make your shopping easier.

Adaptive Clothing is a design that changes conventional clothing into styles that are easily worn by those individuals with physical handicaps, diminished motor skills or dementias. Look for the assisted dressing symbol, "AD", in our web catalog.

Some of our adaptive designs are:

Rear Closure garments that open down the back for ease in dressing the man or woman who cannot raise the arms over the head to put on a shirt or dress, or who is confined to a wheelchair or bed. Our rear closure adaptive garments have either snaps down the back strategically placed to avoid pressure points on the body or shoulder snaps with ample fabric overlap providing good coverage and comfort.

Side-zip garments have 22" zippers down both sides of the pants. This generous opening permits greater ease in dressing for the non-weight bearing individual and facilitates the transfer process in toileting.

Cut-away garments look just like conventional clothing, but the seat of the garment has been "cut away" providing easier personal care by the caregiver and comfort for the wearer. This adaptive design is only to be used for the man or woman who does not stand. Maintenance of the individual's dignity is extremely important to us.

Loops or tabs on zippers for easier grasping can be put on any garment.

Grab loops from matching fabric can be sewn into any of our pants to help the wearer pull the pants up independently.

Back-flap pants are designed with fabric that overlaps at the seat and is attached by Velcro® at the waist to allow for ease in self-toileting for the wheelchair bound woman or man.

One-piece Jumpsuits look like traditional garments, but they have back zipper access to prevent the wearer from disrobing inappropriately. These adaptive garments preserve the dignity of our customers with dementias, but should only be worn if a caregiver is present to assist in toileting and with personal care needs for the woman or man.

We hope this information has been helpful to you as you shop with us and remember that we will work with you to do custom designs to meet unique needs. Just call us @ 1-800-458-0600

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