Every morning at 10 a.m. sharp, Juanita Wood, 87, taps "okay" on a screen to start up a device that takes her blood pressure and transmits the information to her medical clinic. At 10:30 a.m., her husband, Arthur, 91, touch-starts his own device, neatly lined up next to hers. The machine calculates his blood pressure and weight and sends them off, along with a blood sugar count that he enters by hand.

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. . .“I didn’t just want my clothes to be ‘adapted,’” Summerfield says. “There are companies out there who really do make me cringe; it’s as if our lives are just about being practical without sex appeal and style. My collection focused on style first and then all the ways we could adapt them in terms of comfort and fastenings. The body shape is different when sitting and this had to be a starting point for the collection.”

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