Hi

I have a client who can use the stairs herself but feels that she is in danger of falling over (which has happened once already). Her husband therefore holds her arm to reduce this risk. Can this count as attention even though it is only a preventative measure?

I know it could count as supervision but that will not help in this case as the client does not have any other supervision needs.

Thanks

Without searching through the relavent CD's, the logical process is ...

Supervision is precisely that - to supervise a person in order to be able to provide attention in order to prevent the person possibly injuring themselves.

Contrary to the views of some DM's DLA , supervision must also logically lead to attention being possibly being provided at various points during the day - but there is at least on CD that says that whilst Supervision may be continuous, it need not ever lead to attention.

For a helpful & logical discussion on Supervision and attention, see
CA/4332/2003 - which also contains references to a couple of helpful reported decisions .....

Never forget that the act of walking, indoors or out, is a bodily function, and attention reasonably required to enable someone to walk can be aggregated with other attention needs (especially useful for people too old to qualify for DLA mobility).