Is day just day or does it include the night ?

Is day just day or does it include the night because one HP seems to think so?

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Governments PIP Assessment Guide last updated 31st October 2014
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2.6.20. The HP should explore any variability or fluctuation in the claimant's condition and functional ability by asking the claimant what they can do on "good" days and "bad" days. How many "good" and "bad" days do they have over a period of time? For some conditions different time periods will need to be considered, such as the potential impact of different times of the day. If a claimant is unable to complete an activity or needs support to do so at a point in the day when you would reasonably expect them to complete it, the need should be treated as existing for the whole of the day, even if it does not exist at other points in the day. In general HPs should record function over an average year for conditions that fluctuate over months, per week for conditions that fluctuate by the day, and by the day for conditions that vary over a day. Information about variability is important in assessing the functional effects of the claimant’s condition that apply on the majority of days (bearing in mind that their advice will need to consider the impact of conditions over a year-long period).

Your advice please, thanks.

Thanks Gordon, yes difficult one as the Oxford dictionary says a day is a 24 hour period but then gives other definitions such as daylight hours or 8 hours a day!

Anyway my own situation is as follows with quotes from the government's assessment guide.

Mobility Activities
Activity 11 – Planning and following journeys
Descriptor Points
A. Can plan and follow the route of a journey unaided. 0
B. Needs prompting to be able to undertake any journey to avoid overwhelming psychological
distress to the claimant. 4
C. Cannot plan the route of a journey. 8
D. Cannot follow the route of an unfamiliar journey without another person, assistance dog,
or orientation aid. 10
E. Cannot undertake any journey because it would cause overwhelming psychological distress
to the claimant. 10
F. Cannot follow the route of a familiar journey without another person, an assistance dog or
an orientation aid. 12

The PIP Assessment guide. 31st October 2014.

This activity considers a claimant’s ability to plan and follow the route of a journey.

Notes:
This activity was designed to assess the barriers claimants may face that are associated with mental, cognitive or sensory ability. (Memory loss and forgetting where I am going)
Journey means a local journey, whether familiar or unfamiliar.
Environmental factors may be considered, if they prevent the claimant from reliably completing an activity, for example being unable to cope with crowds or loud noises.

F. Applies to claimants with sensory (Visual Imparement) or cognitive (Memory) impairments, who cannot work out where to go, follow directions or deal with unexpected changes in their journey, even when the journey is familiar. See descriptor ‘d’ for a definition of ‘follow’.
Small disruptions and unexpected changes, such as road works and changed bus-stops, are commonplace when following journeys and consideration should be given to whether the claimant would be able to carry out the activity as described if such common place disruptions occur.
Consider this example: a person with learning difficulties is left alone to walk home. If left in a familiar area can they safely and reliably get home, if not then 11f applies. If they can get home from a familiar location, move on to the next relevant descriptor in this category 11d. If they were left in an unfamiliar area for example a new shopping area in town, could they do this? If no 11d may be satisfied.
Safety can be considered when the risk identified is related to the ability to navigate, for example visual impairment and substantial risk from traffic when crossing a road.
This descriptor is unlikely to apply to mental or behavioural disorders for example anxiety.

Sensory impairment
The term sensory impairment encompasses visual loss (including blindness and partial sight), hearing loss (including the whole range) and multisensory impairment (which means having a diagnosed visual and hearing impairment with at least a mild loss in each modality or deaf blindness).

I suffer a worsening memory loss problem which causes me many problems including (When driving) having to ask, my wife usually, where we are going. This often happens when I am at a junction and suddenly cannot think where I should go.

I am not confident enough to drive at night due to my allergic conjunctivitis. Headlights cause my eyes to water and itch and I have to keep rubbing and drying my eyes. When this happens it makes it a danger for me to drive and also stresses me out greatly.


I hope you can advise on how I stand and my chances of getting these points.

Gordon wrote: Carper

I am sorry if this is not clear from the guides but the test is in regard to a claimant going out on foot and using Public Transport, whilst problems with driving may be considered as supporting evidence to your problems with going out and/or planning a route, I think it very unlikely that they will in their own right result in any points being scored.

Gordon

Thank you Gordon, I must admit not to have seen any reference to being on foot or going on public transport.
Not much good to someone who cannot stand then walk 20 metres but can drive for a while before having to return home and not be able to repeat the process later in the day. At least I should get the 12 points for 'Moving Around'.

Just have to see how the HP on the day reads the guides..................

If you know where in the guides it says "to being on foot or going on public transport" I would appreciate it?.........Thank you............