Hello,
I have read various guides but I’m still a little lost with this descriptor:
11. Initiating and completing personal action (which means planning, organisation, problem solving, prioritising or switching tasks).
Cannot, due to impaired mental function, reliably initiate or complete at least 2 sequential personal actions.
So how does this apply? What examples are best.
Is it:
Someone who doesn’t wash daily and needs to be reminded to do this due to depression/anxiety
Someone who can’t leave the house to go shopping, so someone has to do the shopping for them
Someone who doesn’t cook their main meals with fresh ingredients, someone does their cooking
Someone who doesn’t start or complete household tasks, or starts them but doesn’t complete them due to fatigue and depression
Someone who needs help paying their rent and bills, going through what’s needed to be paid etc.
Also: what if the person despite all of the above can make an online consultation with a doctor to discuss health issues. Does this mean they won’t meet the descriptor?
Online consultation is not picking up the phone. It’s writing into an online forum and then the doctors decide if you need an appointment or not.
I have read that it is quite a contentious descriptor and tribunals avoid it at all costs. And that it shouldn’t be about simple tasks you can do easily but more complex ones.
Any advice would be great for future reviews.
