New child dla claim, CFS activities needing help

funmum wrote: Thank you. What I'm getting at is, do I include things in the leisure activities section that he cannot do even with help? Or do I give a clear explanation at the start of that section as to how his illness prevents him from doing many things even with help?

Another question I have is, because the condition is variable I have sat down and done my best to break this down in as much detail as I can for each question. But there is absolutely no way that I will remember all the variations, number of minutes, number of times etc etc if I have to go to tribunal. So am I shooting myself in the foot by including details that I can't remember if questionned about it later?

Thank you

You should concentrate of the things he might be able to achieve with assistance, so as an example; he might not be able to play football, but might be able to watch a game, if he had assistance to take him to and from the game and to help him to a seat, that might total 3 hours of assistance a week.

Whilst it can be important for individual activities to record in detail how much time is involved, you also need to look at his condition as a whole so talk about, hours in a day, days in a week or month, just be careful to check your maths as it is easy to trip yourself up. As an example, I would say for my current health that I have no good days a week, that I am severely effected for at least six days a week and chronically for the remaining one.

Gordon