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Advice for person with Vascular Dementia who needs supervision with all daily living activities

braca
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Hi, can you give advice for person with Vascular Dementia who needs supervision with all daily living activities ?
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HI,What sort of advice would you like? There's 10 daily living activities. Does the person currently claim PIP? thinking of claiming PIP? Sorry but you haven't really given any information for anyone to be able to help further.
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If your question isn't about benefits have you spoke to social services and asked for an a assessment to see if they can give any help?Be extra nice to new members.
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Person not on PIP and was advised by occupational therapy to apply.
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Then if they decide to apply they should fill out the form with as much relevant information as possible about how their conditions affect them. Then add a couple of recent real world examples of what happened the last time they attempted that activity for each descriptor that applies to them.PIP isn't awarded based on a diagnosis, it's how those conditions affect your ability to carry out daily activity based on the PIP descriptors.
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Excerpt from Occupational Therapist letter, I observed Mr Mxxxxx engage with kitchen task and he had great difficulty in terms of processing skills, He also failed to turn off gas cooker at end of task, requiring intervention for him to do so.
I would think said person would require supervision for Preparing food, and would need help with most other Daily living activities.
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Hi @braca - There's some info in the following link about applying for PIP with mental health issues. Please see: https://www.mentalhealthandmoneyadvice.org/en/welfare-benefits/pip-mental-health-guide/help-with-your-pip-claim/how-to-fill-in-the-pip-form/ Hope this may help.
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@mikehughescq
Person of working age, Another example when I visited person recently He had casual trousers on wrong way round and pointed this out to him, I guess that would be prompting.
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Big thank you @ mikehughescq.
Not a one off as he has problems with buttons and zips
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