Development of Medical Garments and Apparel for the Elderly and the Disabled

I. Introduction -- I. Cla.ssitIcation of medical garments -- 1.1.1. Protective function domain -- 1.1.2. Treatment function domain -- 1.1.3. caring function domain -- 1.2. Development of medical garments -- 1.2.1. Historical development of medical garments -- l.2.2. Trends of medical garments -- 1.2.3. Future scope of medical gannents -- 2. Review of medical garments for protective function -- 2.1. Medical drapes and gowns -- 2. I. 1. Textile materials for medical drapes and gowns -- 2.1.2. Design considerations for medical gowns -- 2.2. Hip protectors (HP) -- 2.2.1. Textiles used for HP -- 2.2.2. Design considerations for improvement on the compliance -- 3. Review of medical garments for treatment function -- 3.1. Pressure garments (PGs) -- 3.1. I. Textiles used for PG -- 3.1.2. Considerations on the design of PGs -- 3.2. Compression stockings (CSs) -- 3.2.1. Textiles for C'Ss -- 3.2.2. Considerations on the application of CSs -- 3.3. Wet dressings -- 3.3.1. Functions of wet dressings -- 3.3.2. Textiles used for wet dressings -- 3.3.3. Limitations of wet dressings -- 4. Review of apparel products for caring function -- 4.1. Superabsorbent materials (SAMs) used in disposable healthcare products -- 4.2. Wound dressings -- 4.3. Diapers for incontinence problems -- 5. Review of intelligent medical garments -- 5.1. Application of conductive textile material into the smart garment -- 5.2. Examples of intelligent medical garments -- 5.2.1. Smart garments for vital signs and motion monitoring -- 5.2.2. Smart diapers -- 6.Casestudiesinthedevelopmentofapparelfortheelderlyandthedisabled262 -- 6.1. Stoma bag Underplants -- 6.. 11 litisting problems faced by the users carrying stoma bag -- 6.12. Techniques adopted for the development of stoma bag underpants -- 62. Urine bag pants -- 62. 1. Problems faced by people currying a urine bag -- &2r2. Techniques adopted for the development of urine bag pants -- 5.3. Pan Is for chair-bound people -- &3. I. Problems faced by chair-bound people -- 612. Techniques applied for the development of pants furchair-bound people -- 5.4. Sun block protective garments for patierns with xeroderrna pignientosum -- 6.4.1. Problems faced by patients with XP -- 6.4.2. Tech niques applied for the dn'eloprnen of a sunbiock protective garment for patients with XI' 27 -- 7. Future prospects of developing apparel for the elderly and The disabled -- 8.Conclusion274.