By Matthew McCully – “Most of us dress ourselves. Clothing is made for one person. When you bring a second person into the equation, it changes dramatically,” explained Sherbrooke resident Kristine Goulet, President and founder of Monarch, an adaptive clothing company. “Monarch was inspired by personal experience.” Goulet’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and spent the last five years of her life struggling with the disease.
Goulet was her main caregiver. “There was a major issue with dressing,” Goulet said, explaining that her mother often found the experience painful and would sometimes wince during the process. “One day, I came to give her a big hug. Her back was completely exposed,” commented Goulet, adding that she noticed welts forming on her mother’s back where her bare skin was rubbing against her wheelchair. “I checked, and she was dressed properly. This was supposedly adaptive clothing,” Goulet said. “That set the process going. There had to be a better way,” she said. See full story in the Tuesday, Jan. 22 edition of The Record.
Monarch redefining adaptive clothing
