You may be eligible to receive the benefits of your sharing program if a licensed health care practitioner has certified in the last 12 months that :
- you are unable to perform, without substantial assistance from another person, at least two activities of daily living (ADL) for an expected period of at least 90 days due to a loss of functional capacity; or
- you require substantial supervision due to your severe cognitive impairment.
What are activities of daily living?
If you need substantial assistance from another person to complete any of these activities, then you are dependent for that activity. Activities of daily living include :
Bathing
- Getting into and out of a tub or shower
- Washing your body in a tub, shower, or by sponge bath
- Washing your hair in a tub, shower, or sink
Continence
- Maintaining control of bowel and bladder function
- When unable to maintain control of bowel or bladder function, performing associated personal hygiene (including caring for a catheter or colostomy bag)
Dressing
putting on and taking off all clothing items and any necessary braces, fasteners, or artificial limbs
Eating
- Feeding yourself by getting food into your mouth from a container (such as a plate or cup), including the use of utensils when appropriate (such as a spoon or fork)
- When unable to feed yourself from a container, feeding yourself by a feeding tube or intravenously
Toileting
- Getting on and off the toilet
- Performing associated personal hygiene
Transferring
Getting into and out of a bed, chair, or wheelchair
What is a severe cognitive impairment?
A severe cognitive impairment is a deterioration or loss in intellectual capacity (such as Alzheimer’s disease) that :
places you in jeopardy of harming yourself or others and, therefore, you require substantial supervision by another person
is measured by clinical evidence and standardized tests that reliably measure impairment in :
- Short or long term memory
- Orientation to people, places, or time
- Deductive or abstract reasoning
