Name: The Client
Date of birth: **-**-95
Family: Parents, client, brother
The Client has Ataxic Cerebral Palsy with low tone in all four limbs. The Client is mobile wearing AFOs.
The Client has severe learning difficulties and has no verbal communication.
The Client has significant sleep problems and has occasional epileptic fits at night causing her to vomit.
The Client also experiences some behavioural problems which includes noisy and self-injurious behaviour. In addition the Client does not have bladder/bowel control, therefore wearing nappies. Given the opportunity the Client will smear the contents of the nappies.
The Client is fully dependent on her parents for all her personal care and social needs.
The Client lives with her mum, dad and her brother, who is six years old.
The family live in a small privately owned, two bedroom semi-detached bungalow.
This necessitates the Client and her brother sharing a bedroom. Due to the Client's poor sleeping pattern, her brother is woken up on a regular basis; this has caused him to have difficulties concentrating at school.
The Client is unaware of others' needs for privacy or for the value of items.
The father works abroad on occasion.
Whilst the parents have coped remarkably well with the Client's difficulties, suitable accommodation could alleviate much of the stress this family is experiencing.
The family strongly desire to remain within the same locality so that the Client can continue to attend the same school for special needs. The Client's grandmother lives locally, providing the family with valuable support.
Whilst the Client is currently mobile her future long-term needs are uncertain, she may or may not require a wheelchair in the future.
Therefore I would recommend a wheelchair accessible house with all door widths being 900mm wide, and hall widths allowing wheelchair turning space. Level access into the property is required.
Three bedrooms are required - a double bedroom for the parents, a double bedroom for The Client and a bedroom for her brother.
It is recommended that the parents' bedroom is situated adjacent to the Client's room enabling them to have quick and easy access to the Client through the night.
The Client also requires a playroom separate to her bedroom to assist her with developing a suitable sleeping pattern by distinguishing between the area in which she sleeps and the area in which she plays/ carries out activities.
As the Client requires constant supervision due to her lack of safety awareness and behavioural difficulties, a kitchen/ dining room is recommended. This would allow her parents to be working in the kitchen whilst the Client could be supervised in the same room.
A large family sized living room is required.
The Client will require an en-suite shower room with level access shower area, toilet and wash hand basin. The rest of the family will require a separate bathroom.
A utility room would be recommended due to the amount of washing generated by the Client. It is recommended that the utility room is large enough to accommodate a washing machine, tumble drier, sink and clothes drying space.
A garage is recommended with access to the house available from the garage.
A garden area, securely fenced is recommended to provide the Client with an outdoor play/ activity area.
Though the Client is currently mobile, she may require a wheelchair in the future. Therefore it is recommended that the house is designed to be wheelchair accessible throughout.
To meet current and future housing needs the family require a three bedroom wheelchair accessible property. The house requires to comprise an en-suite wheelchair accessible, shower room and separate playroom.
The family's current housing situation is overcrowded and although they have coped remarkably well, their housing situation is increasing the levels of stress this family are dealing with, it is in the interests of all the family members to be suitably accommodated as soon as possible.
