INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT International Peer Reviewed & Refereed Journals, Open Access Journal ISSN Approved Journal No: 2456-4184 | Impact factor: 8.76 | ESTD Year: 2016
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Comfortable and self-help garments are the basic need of every individual. The study was conducted with the aim and objectives to study the comfort, ease and problems of the existing garments with disabilities for elderly people. Questionnaire cum interview method was used to find the requirements, to design and construct different patterns with functional features. The overall study revealed that ease of dressing and undressing, comfort and appropriate functional garments are the basic needs of the elderly people. Based on the data, 24 different clothing designs were developed to address the disabilities. 8 designs were actually constructed and were given for trial to the elderly people. A key highlight is that they liked these because the garment included functional features. Even though the garments were designed and developed to overcome the problems of the elderly people, the overall appearance of those garments was same as that worn by normal people.
Keywords:
Functional Clothing, Self Help Features, Donning And Doffing, Adaptive Clothing, Comfortable Garments
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"Clothing Problems and Practices of Elderly People: Designing Functional Clothes", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no.f828-f836, April-2024, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2404599.pdf
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2456-4184 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.76 Calculated By Google Scholar| ESTD YEAR: 2016
An International Scholarly Open Access Journal, Peer-Reviewed, Refereed Journal Impact Factor 8.76 Calculate by Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool, Multidisciplinary, Monthly, Multilanguage Journal Indexing in All Major Database & Metadata, Citation Generator
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