ThI totally support and agree with Tigardove. I was a Benefits Advisor and Home visitor with Age Concern (as was) for 10 years and filled in hundreds of AA forms.
AA is there for anyone who in an ideal world needs help from someone else in the normal activities of life, washing, dressing, maintaining mental health. But we do not live in an ideal world and AA is not enough to pay for that genie in a bottle who is immediately by your side whenever you need them, so the government sensibly decided to leave it to the person receiving the AA to decide what would most improve their lives and give them some relief and improvement ot their lives.
Over the years the variety of things people spent the money on grew and grew. Some invsted it in special chairs and beds, another man crippled with arthritis and barely able to move spent it on a tv. The one he had did not even have a remote control so changing channels was almost impossible, with a new tv with a remote control, he did not have to leave his chair and struggle painfully to the tv, another lady had a grandson who called in morning and evening on his jurney to and from school and checked she was alright, checked she had had her pills. She was able to buy him a present tho thank him for his care.
AA is for personal care only and that does not include domestic cleaning. The forms are very clear on that matter. Obviously some people once they get it use for that, that is why the government made the use of the money so open ended. The range of problems people have and their living conditions are so varied that it is not possible to lay down rules about how the money is used.
