Wearable Soft Robotics for Independent Living (EP/M026388/1)

This sounds like it would easily meet up with survivor needs. What is your doctor doing to facilitate this?
http://phys.org/wire-news/186233091/prosthetic-hands-robotic-trousers-and-biosensors-amppound53-m.html
Wearable Soft Robotics for Independent Living (EP/M026388/1) Research at the University of Bristol, University of the West of England, University of Nottingham, University of Leeds, University of Strathclyde, University of Southampton and Loughborough University. Awarded £2 million
The research team will develop soft robotic clothing to enable those with mobility impairments, disabilities and age-related weakness to move easily and unaided and to live independently and with dignity. The end results will be easy to use, comfortable, adaptable and meet the user's individual mobility needs.
Smart trousers could help vulnerable people avoid falls by supporting them whilst walking, give people added bionic strength to move between sitting and standing positions, and help people climb stairs which were previously insurmountable. They could replace the stair lift in the home and other bulky and uncomfortable mobility and stability aids. Ultimately they have the potential to free many wheelchair users from their wheelchairs.
This intelligent clothing or 'second skin' will use artificial 'muscles' made from smart materials and reactive polymers which are capable of exerting great forces. This will be developed using the latest wearable soft robotic, nanoscience, 3D fabrication, functional electrical stimulation and full-body monitoring technologies, all driven by the need of the end users, who will also be directly involved in the project. They will include control systems that monitor the wearer and adapt to give the most suitable assistance, working with the body's own muscles. For patients needing rehabilitation the smart clothing can initially provide strong support and subsequently reduce assistance as the patient recovers mobility and strength.
Many existing devices used by people with mobility problems can cause or aggravate conditions such as poor circulation, skin pressure damage or susceptibility to falls, each of which is a drain on health resources. Wearable Soft Robotics has the potential to alleviate many of these patients problems and reduce healthcare costs.

How the clothes you wear change your perceptions and behaviors with Hajo Adam - stroke rehab

What changes is your doctor going to make on clothing choices by survivors based on this?  Nothing is not a valid answer. As long as they don't make me wear doctor whites, that would totally destroy my cognitive ability.
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2014/06/06/yanss-podcast-25-how-the-clothes-you-wear-change-your-perceptions-and-behaviors-with-hajo-adam/
When you work from home, do you produce better results in pajamas or professional attire? Do casual Fridays damage productivity? Does a jeans-and-T-shirt startup have an edge over its business-casual competitor?
Researchers are just now getting to the bottom of questions like these. The answers depend on the symbolic power the particular item of clothing has in the mind of the particular wearer, but the answer to each question is never “not at all.”
Up until now, most psychological investigations into clothing have dealt with how clothes communicate status or facilitate rituals. For instance, if you put a person in a police uniform and have them ask questions or make demands you’ll get completely different results than if you had the same person wear a pirate costume. But what about the person in the uniform or the costume? Are the clothes affecting his or her behavior, thoughts, judgments, and decisions? The evidence collected so far suggests that yes, the clothes we wear affect our minds in ways we never notice. In fact, it’s likely the same person in the same situation in the same clothes will behave differently depending just on the color of those clothes.
In this episode of the YANSS Podcast we explore enclothed cognition, and I interview one of the researchers who discovered the phenomenon. Hajo Adam, a professor of management and researcher at Rice University’s School of Business, explains how he and Adam Galinsky, a business professor at Columbia University, conducted the studies that showed people wearing lab coats perform better on tests of mental ability than people wearing street clothes.
After the interview, I discuss a news story about how eyewitness testimony gets progressively less reliable the farther away the eyes of the witness from the crime.

What you wear can change your brain

So when will your hospital hand out Superman or Wonder Woman t-shirts to stroke survivors? If I were to put on a white doctors coat it would flatline my mental abilities.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=142322&CultureCode=en
Clothing affects our mental processes and perceptions which can change our minds and the way we think, according to research by Professor Karen Pine from the University of Hertfordshire.
When Professor Pine asked students to put on a Superman t-shirt there was a scientific reason behind the request. She wanted to know if the heroic clothing would change the students’ thinking. She found it boosted their impression of themselves and made them feel physically stronger. This, and other discoveries of how clothing can change our minds, is the topic of her new book called Mind What You Wear: The Psychology of Fashion.
Professor Karen Pine, from the department of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, explained: “When wearing a Superman t-shirt the students rated themselves as more likeable and superior to other students. When asked to estimate how much they could physically lift, those in a Superman t-shirt thought they were stronger than students in a plain t-shirt, or in their own clothing.”
This research, and other clothing research described in the book, shows how people’s mental processes and perceptions can be primed by clothing, as they internalise the symbolic meaning of their outer layers.
In Mind What You Wear, Professor Pine describes how women who were given a maths test performed worse when wearing a swimsuit than when wearing a sweater. She describes how putting on a white coat improved people’s mental agility, as their brain was primed to take on the mental capacities they associated with being a doctor.
Professor Pine’s book gives fascinating insights into the cognitive, social and emotional consequences of what we wear. Her previous research discovered that women are more likely to wear jeans when they are depressed. In this book she reveals that when women are stressed they wear less of their wardrobe, neglecting 90% of it, and the main reason women dress up is not to look attractive but to feel confident.
Professor Pine added: “As well as scientific research, my book also contains tips on how to feel happier and more confident with the right clothes, explaining not only that we are what we wear, but that we become what we wear.”

Zipper ties

This is one of the few areas where I allowed compensation to take place.  Tying a tie right now would require me to be able to hold my bad left hand close to my neck, not possible due to tricep spasticity. My fingers will not stay open unless I am laying them on a table.  I have no individual finger movement yet.  3 strikes and you are out.  I don't wear ties very often, last time at a funeral and my best friends wife tied it for me. I have a couple of great ties back in storage in Minneapolis. M.C. Escher and Looney Tunes, both from my daughter. These ties look exactly like regular ties, the tail is essentially a zipper than separates at the knot to create a loop for your head. You pull  the tail down and the zipper joins shortening the loop to snug it around your neck.  Two hands are almost needed to accomplish that but I use my spastic bad hand to clamp onto the tail and pull it down.

buttoning my pants

I'm heartbroken. I used to fit in 34 inch waist jeans, prior to stroke I conceded that I needed a 35 inch waist. Until now.
When I started back to work after 6 months my main concern was  not anything cognitive or ambulating to meetings, it was the ability to rebutton my pants if needed. I practiced. I noticed that it did require a metal stud button.  I  can't get my left hand to participate in any way at all to assist buttoning, but I have gotten very good at one-handed use. Today I tried to button a newly bought 35 inch waist pair of cords. It didn't work. As a temporary solution I'll have to get one of those waist button extenders. But it really means I have to accept the fact I need to buy 36 inch waist pants.
Damn this stroke, taking away my fantasy of still being fit.