[Clothing and footwear for the elderly and senile: recommendations for the formation of a special wardrobe.]

According to WHO, the number of elderly and senile people by 2050 will amount to more than 2 billion people. The period 2020-2030 is designated by WHO as the «Decade of Healthy Aging¼ with a program according to which healthy aging is designed to delay the dependence of this age group on outside help, to promote their long healthy life. Such a statement of the problem indicates an understanding of the relevance of the development of functionally comfortable and aesthetically designed clothing and footwear designs that provide this contingent with independence in self-service and contribute to their successful longevity. The purpose of the study is to substantiate recommendations for the development of clothing and footwear designs, the formation of a wardrobe for elderly and senile people to facilitate the process of self-service and movement. A questionnaire has been developed, with the help of which an examination by specialists and a survey of 60 patients aged 60-87 years who underwent social rehabilitation in the clinic of the 1Federal Scientific Center for Rehabilitation of Disabled People named after G.A.Albrecht. Information was obtained about the diseases of these patients, about the limitations in self-service and mobility, preferences in choosing standard designs of clothing and shoes, claims and wishes for their characteristics in the aspect of self-service. The main recommendations on the compilation of a wardrobe for the elderly and senile age have been developed and formulated, the need for the development of functionally new forms and designs of both clothes and shoes to create for the elderly and senile the convenience of using these products, hiding morphological defects and deformations (figures and feet) and at the same time meeting the aesthetic requirements of fashion and personal preferences has been substantiated the user. The rehabilitation effect of using functionally new forms and designs of these products is to provide self-management of clothing and footwear for patients with significantly pronounced diseases, functional disorders, defects and deformations of the musculoskeletal system, that is, to reduce their dependence on outside help in the process of self-service and movement.

[Clothing and footwear for the persons of elderly and senile age as the problem of gerontological technologies.]

According to the World Health Organization, human life expectancy has increased significantly around the world over the past century, but this process is inevitably accompanied by aging. Therefore, persons who have reached the elderly and senile age often become infirm, especially physically. As a result, such people find it increasingly difficult to make movements related to self-service and movement when using standard clothing and shoes. In a study of 55 patients (from 60 to 87 years), conducted for the first time from the point of view of medical and social rehabilitation, data were obtained that reveal the nature of physical limitations of this group of people, which significantly complicate them use of standard clothing and shoes. The main conclusion of the work is the relevance of the development of medical and technical requirements for the design and production of clothing and footwear specifically for the elderly and senile taking into account their changed anthropometric parameters and their characteristic functional limitations.

[Orthopedic services as a tool of medical rehabilitation of patients with foot drop syndrome]. / Ortopedicheskoe obespechenie kak instrument meditsinskoi reabilitatsii patsientov s sindromom otvisayushchei stopy.

OBJECTIVE: To study the features of the rehabilitation of patients with foot drop syndrome and to develop recommendations for the appointment of technical means of rehabilitation (TMR) for this pathology. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospective analysis of the survey data of 375 patients in need of lower limb orthosis was carried out. General clinical and biomechanical methods were used to study the disturbances of statodynamic function of the musculoskeletal system. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The results confirm that patients with foot drop syndrome have disturbances of support, stability, symmetry and rhythmicity of walking and, as a result, a significant deterioration in the quality of life. It has been established that the patients is not fully provided with orthoses and orthopedic shoes appointed to compensate for impaired function. Practitioners and rehabilitation specialists have difficulties in substantiating the needs and recommendations of TMR for a particular patient. The presented medical and technical requirements for product designs, the methodology for determining the need for them and recommendations for the appointment of TMR will contribute to the successful rehabilitation of patients with foot drop syndrome.