Dressing and undressing

Dressing and undressing is one of the daily living activities. The points you score for this activity are added to your scores for the other daily living activities.

Check your likely award

Working out how many points you might get can be difficult. The Turn2us PIP Helper takes you through a questionnaire about the PIP activities and gives you an estimate of the award you might be entitled to, so you don't have to work out the points yourself.

Use the Turn2us PIP Helper

Think about whether you can dress and undress

When considering this activity, think about what help you need most of the time to do it:

• Safely
• Well enough (including without experiencing too much pain or exhaustion)
• Often enough
• Without taking too long

You get points for the sentence that is true for most of the time, or more than half the time. If more than one sentence is true, you will only get points for the one that is true for the most time. 

You can only score one set of points for dressing and undressing - do not add the points together.

No points

You get no points if you can get dressed and undressed without any help or special aids.

Two points

You get two points if you:

• need a special aid, or
• need prompting, or
• need help choosing suitable clothing, or
• need help dressing your lower body.

Examples of special aids:

• Sock aids
• Button hooks

Four points

You get four points if you need someone to help you dress or undress your upper body.

Eight points

You get eight points cannot get dressed or undressed at all.