| Aid or appliance |
Any object or device which the person needs to be able to perform an activity and improves, provides or replaces the individual’s impaired physical or mental function. |
| Aided |
With the use of an aid or appliance, or supervision, prompting or assistance. |
| Assistance |
Physical intervention by another person and does not include speech. |
| Assistance Dog |
A dog trained to guide or assist a person with sensory impairment. |
| Basic verbal information |
Information in the person’s own native language conveyed verbally in a single sentence. |
| Basic written information |
Signs, symbols and dates written or printed in standard size text in the person’s native language. |
| Bathe |
Includes to get into or out of an unadapted bath and shower. |
| Communication support |
Support from another person trained or experienced in communicating with people with specific communication needs, including interpreting verbal information into a non-verbal form and vice versa. |
| Complex budgeting decisions |
Decisions involving calculating household and personal budgets; managing and paying bills and planning future purchases. |
| Complex verbal information |
Information in the person’s native language conveyed verbally in either more than one sentence or one complicated sentence. |
| Complex written information |
More than one sentence of written or printed standard size text in person’s native language. |
| Cook |
Heat food at or above waist height. |
| Dress |
Includes put on socks and shoes. |
| Engage socially |
Interact with others in a contextually and socially appropriate manner, understand body language and establish relationships. |
| Follow the route of a journey |
Navigate and make their way along a planned route to a planned destination |
| Manage incontinence |
Manage involuntary evacuation of the bowel or bladder, including use a collecting device or self-catheterisation and clean oneself afterwards. |
| Manage medication or therapy |
Take medication or undertake therapy, where a failure to do so is likely to result in a deterioration in person’s health. |
| Medication |
Medication to be taken at home which is prescribed by a registered doctor, nurse, pharmacist or health professional registered by the Health and Care Professions Council. |
| Monitor a health condition |
Detect significant changes in the person’s health condition which are likely to lead to a deterioration in the person’s health; and take action advised by a registered doctor, registered nurse or health professional who is regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council without which person’s health is likely to deteriorate. |
| Needs |
Where used in relation to an aid or appliance, or supervision, prompting or assistance from another person, means that it is reasonably required, though it may not have been available or provided |
| Orientation aid |
A specialist aid designed to assist disabled people to follow a route safely. |
| Prepare |
In the context of food, means make food ready for cooking or eating. |
| Prompting |
Reminding, encouraging or explaining by another person. |
| Psychological distress |
Psychological distress related to an enduring mental health condition or an intellectual or cognitive impairment. |
| Read |
Includes read signs, symbols and words, but does not include read Braille. |
| Simple budgeting decisions |
Decisions involving calculating the costs of goods and calculating change required after a purchase. |
| Simple meal |
A cooked one-course meal for one using fresh ingredients. |
| Social support |
Support from a person trained or experienced in assisting people to engage in social situations. |
| Stand |
Stand upright with at least one biological foot on the ground. |
| Supervision |
The continuous presence of another person for the purpose of ensuring person’s safety. |
| Take nutrition |
Cut food into pieces, convey food and drink to one’s mouth and chew and swallow food or drink; or take nutrition by using a therapeutic source. |
| Therapeutic source |
Parenteral or enteral tube feeding, using a rate-limiting device such as a delivery system or feed pump. |
| Therapy |
Therapy to be undertaken at home which is prescribed or recommended by a registered doctor, nurse, pharmacist or health professional who is regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council but does not include taking or applying, or otherwise receiving or administering, medication (whether orally, topically or by any other means), or any action which, in the person’s case, falls within the definition of “monitor a health condition”. |
| Toilet needs |
Getting on and off an unadapted toilet, evacuating the bladder and bowel and cleaning oneself afterwards. |
| Unaided |
Without the use of an aid or appliance or supervision, prompting or assistance. |
| Undress |
Includes take off socks and shoes. |
