Dressing Supplies for the Handicapped

Dressing supplies for the handicapped are assistive devices that promote independent living. According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, "An assistive device is a tool or implement that makes a particular function easier or possible to perform." Using these devices helps to avoid fatigue, makes life easier and helps promote an active life.

Sock Aid

• Pull your socks up with the help of a Sock Aid. Place this device on your lap, pull the sock over it, let the device fall to the floor with the opening of your sock facing your foot. Pull up the rope and slide your sock onto your foot.

Eliminate Need to Bend

• Eliminate the need to bend down or reach up with the handicapped dressing supply called the Reacher. This item can retrieve clothes from the floor, take clothes hangers off the rod, assist with taking socks and shoes off as well as other activities throughout the day.

Pants

• Pull your pants up or push them down with the dressing assistance device called the Dressing Stick. This dowel has a small round hook on one end and an "S" curved hook on the other end, which also helps with pushing off socks and shoes.

Shoes

• Eliminate the need to tie and untie shoes by using elastic shoe laces. These shoe laces stretch to make putting shoes on easier and, with a tug on them, tighten up the shoes instead of tying them.

Buttons and Zippers

• Replace buttons on clothes with Velcro. This will help close up shoes, shirts/blouses and other items instead of trying to button them up.

  Stop struggling with buttoning and pulling up zippers with a button/zipper hook combination. This device assists those with limited hand function by pulling the button through the button hole with one end and features a small hook on the other end to hook onto a zipper to pull it up or down.