In order to meet this criteria you need to show that your disability means that you need attention from another person in connection with your bodily functions for a significant portion of the day. This is intended for people who need help with one task (like getting up and going to bed) but can manage by themselves for most of the day.
Definitions
-"Bodily functions" in this case are things like eating, walking, getting in or out of bed, dressing, communicating, breathing, bathing, going to the toilet, communicating, shaving.
-Attention means needing someone else to do personal things for you that you cannot do yourself.
-The help you need must involve some personal contact with you and be carried out in your presence. Help with domestic tasks does not count.
-Attention can involve either physical or verbal contact provided it helps you to do personal things for yourself
-In the Mallinson case Lord Woolf said-
The attention is in connection with the bodily function if it provides a substitute method of providing what the bodily function would provide if it were not totally or partially impaired.
-Significant portion can be a single period during the day or a number of periods. The DWP Advisers' Guide (para 61206) states that
The word significant should be given its ordinary meaning of not negligible or trivial. It refers only to the length of time a person requires attention.....an hour may be considered reasonable in many cases
-It is unlikely that any period of time less than one hour will be considered to be significant.
