PIP Managing and monitoring therapy

Hi susan,

Regulation 2 of the main PIP regulations provides -

“aid or appliance”- (a) means any device which improves, provides or replaces [the claimant's] impaired physical or mental function; and (b) includes a prosthesis;
Regulation 4(2) provides -

[The claimant's] ability to carry out an activity is to be assessed - (a) on the basis of [the claimant's] ability whilst wearing or using any aid or appliance which [the claimant] normally wears or uses; or (b) as if [the claimant] were wearing or using any aid or appliance which [the claimant] could reasonably be expected to wear or use.

Dosette box and alarm would certainly help if you have cognitive or memory issues and hence forget.
Presumably the insulin pen provides the medication hence would not count as an aid. However if you need help to use this you might qualify under need assistance - 3bii
Blood sugar monitoring will probably come under 3biii if you need help to do the monitoring I don't think this is obviously an aid.
If you have any therapy such as home dialysis, nebuliser, tensmachine, cpap machine for sleep apnoea or perhaps physio exercises that require a partner's help, or help to put on compression stocking these might come under 3c upwards depending on the amount of time per week required.
I hope this helps.
LL26