Dressing Dressing Without help • Response options With some help • Completely unable • Business rules Mandatory. Select one option. Assessment Home Support Assessment Comprehensive Assessment Pre-population Add in Support Plan Assessment Summary Whether the client can dress themselves. Consider cognitive as well as physical reasons. A client with dementia may be physically able to dress, Help text but may require prompting to do so, or a carer may also need to physically assist a client who is unable to their dressing tasks. ‘sequence’ Considerations for best practice Context: This refers to whether the client can dress themselves. Consider/record: Without help: The client is able to choose their clothing and is appropriately dressed, is able to do up their own buttons, zips, laces and/or put on their shoes/socks/stockings etc. With some help: The client is able to dress with some assistance and/or prompting. This may include assistance to choose clothing, or to do up their own buttons, zips, laces and/or put on their shoes/socks/stockings etc. Completely unable: The client is completely unable to dress themselves. Prompts/observations: Are you able to choose your own clothing? How do you decide to choose what to wear? Do you have any difficulties in dressing or undressing (including dressing/undressing to use the toilet)? Do you have any difficulties doing up buttons, zips, bra, tying shoelaces? Do you have difficulty putting on or taking off shoes, socks, stockings etc.? Is the client dressed in appropriate clothing? Does the outfit match? Are buttons, zips, shoelaces done up appropriately? Does their appearance validate what they have told you? Eating Eating
Dressing Dressing Response options • Without help • With some help • Completely unable Business rules Mandatory. Select one option. Assessment Home Support Assessment Comprehensive Assessment Pre-population Add in Support Plan Assessment Summary Help text Whether the client can dress themselves. Consider cognitive as well as physical reasons. A client with dementia may be physically able to dress, but may require prompting to do so, or a carer may also need to physically assist a client who is unable to ‘sequence’ their dressing tasks. Considerations for best practice Context: This refers to whether the client can dress themselves. Consider/record: Without help: The client is able to choose their clothing and is appropriately dressed, is able to do up their own buttons, zips, laces and/or put on their shoes/socks/stockings etc. With some help: The client is able to dress with some assistance and/or prompting. This may include assistance to choose clothing, or to do up their own buttons, zips, laces and/or put on their shoes/socks/stockings etc. Completely unable: The client is completely unable to dress themselves. Prompts/observations: Are you able to choose your own clothing? How do you decide to choose what to wear? Do you have any difficulties in dressing or undressing (including dressing/undressing to use the toilet)? Do you have any difficulties doing up buttons, zips, bra, tying shoelaces? Do you have difficulty putting on or taking off shoes, socks, stockings etc.? Is the client dressed in appropriate clothing? Does the outfit match? Are buttons, zips, shoelaces done up appropriately? Does their appearance validate what they have told you? Eating Eating
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