PIP - Managing Incontinence

Hello
Does anyone have any views or thoughts on whether someone requiring a change of clothes could count as an aid for managing incontinence, or how a person might score points on this descriptor if they don’t require supervision, prompting or assistance from another person?
They are, however, regularly incontinent due to bowel problems.

Thanks very much,

Martin

Seems to me that if someone needs to change clothes because of incontinence that’s evidence that they need an aid or appliance such as incontinence pads to manage incontinence. The fact that they don’t use pads doesn’t rule it out (See KO v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (PIP) – [2018] UKUT 0078 (AAC) –
CPIP/3104/2017) but inevitably raises the factual question as to why they don’t.

I can’t see how clothes could improve, provide or replace the relevant bodily function but in any event the matter was dealt with briefly at para. 4 of https://administrativeappeals.decisions.tribunals.gov.uk/Aspx/view.aspx?id=4865.

Nevertheless always worth revisiting dressing/undressing itself in case an argument could be made for points there.

Thanks very much Paul & Mike
This is very helpful

Martin