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PIP Descriptors b. b. Needs to use an aid or appliance to be able to either prepare or cook a simple

PIP Descriptors
1.Preparing Food
b. Needs to use an aid or appliance to be able to
either prepare or cook a simple meal. 2 Points
Can someone help verify a query for me, please, regarding the above PIP descriptor.
If someone suffers from COPD, which causes breathing limitations, and cannot use a conventional cooker because the heat, fumes and smoke from a cooking hob/oven make their breathing problems worse, which means a conventional cooker is not safe to use for them. So instead they use a Halogen Oven (which keeps all the heat, fumes, smoke, etc, confined within it's glass bowl) and/or microwave are to cook.
Then do these two above count as being an aid/appliances, as they are: ‘any device which improves, provides or replaces [the claimant’s] impaired physical or mental function’ ?
Thanks
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I would agree with you.
As in my claim form, I explained I used a slow cooker on the worktop as an aide.
I went into detail to explain why, suggest you do the same.
My wife has recently been diagnosed with COPD and is attending a NHS rehab programme, they have taught her how to take her time and pace herself.
If you have been on such a programme, I would put this in your form.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes
any advice is most welcome and helpful.
Just a thought but do you use an inhaler to help you breathe.If so you could explain if you have to have a puff or two during the cooking process.
Debsidoo.x
A very good point, and quite right , as well, because although I use an aid as I cannot use a cooker, even that still adversely affects my breathing.
thanks