Failure to Function adequately

• Failure to function adequately - behaviour that prevents coping with everyday life

  • a person becomes abnormal when they can no longer cope with the demands of everyday life (e.g. basic hygiene and nutrition)
• (FtF) + Patient's perspective

  • acknowledges the patient's experiences and captures that of many people who need help (is an effective way of establishing negate abnormality)
• (FtF) - Is it just deviation from the norm

  • hard to say if something is a failure or just deviation and treating deviation as a failure risks discrimination
• (FtF) - Subjective judgements

  • the assessment is based on an opinion which can differ between experts