PIP descriptors and wet rooms

micksville wrote: Perusing b and w your guides for health assessors states that wet rooms are not to be considered as aids or adaptations in context of bathing and washing descriptors. Just to clarify does this mean you would score zero points if utilising a wet room or is it rather like a wheelchair as regards mobility? In other words would it be taken as read that if you used a wet room you couldn't bathe unaided?

To be honest it is not really either of these options. The legal test is

e. Needs assistance to be able to get in or out of a bath or shower. 3 points.

So it is specifically the issues you would have with an un-adapted shower or bath that are being looked at. you do not have to have one of these for the test to be applied.

So you need to explain what issue you would have, for example a shower will normally have a raised edge which needs to be stepped over, surfaces might be slippery so do you need hand rails. For a bath you obviously have the high sides and when getting out whether you could rise from a seated of kneeling position, again slippery surfaces would be a risk.

Gordon