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This paragraph seems to be saying that it does not really matter if the person does not have the motivation to get dressed on the days that they do not go out.
10. Moreover, attention has to be reasonably required. It must therefore be established that, if the claimant did not carry out these functions on a regular basis, the impact on his wellbeing is sufficiently adverse such that it justifies the impact which providing the service has on the carer’s life: in evaluating what is reasonable, consideration is paid to both the giver and the recipient of the attention. As was said by Miss Commissioner Fellner at paragraph 6 of CDLA/2495/2004:
“The evidence before the tribunal was that the claimant got out of bed unprompted, but then waited until his mother returned from work before doing anything else, including eating. I am willing to accept that the claimant does require prompting, but not that this equates to his mother carrying out for him all the specified functions. Prompting may be momentary. The evidence was that bathing/showering required more persuasion, but that shaving was done only every four days. So long as the claimant sometimes washes and shaves, it hardly matters that he does not do so every day. Nor would it particularly matter if he did not dress every day. He is not, on the evidence, going out much. I decline, therefore, to accept that all the functions that would be performed by a person going out and about to work or study reasonably require a person who is doing neither of these to be prompted to do every one of them every single day. Even if I did, there would be no question of the prompting being frequent throughout the day, it would be clustered at the beginning and end of the day.”
From that it does not seem worth including in my submission.
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