Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

Primary Support Reason for clients that need support and services for conditions affecting their thinking, knowing, awareness and remembering processes. The types of processes requiring support for the client, identified by the Alzheimer's Society as commonly affected in cognitive impairment, are: - day-to-day memory - planning - language - attention - visuospatial skills ('visuo' referring to eyesight and 'spatial' referring to space or location), which give a person the ability to interpret objects and shapes The degree of impairment requiring support can range from very subtle to very severe. Support with Memory and Cognition is associated most often with conditions such as dementia or physical causes such as an acquired brain injury.