3.15.4.50 Qualification for medically required heating or cooling (EMEP)

Summary

To qualify for EMEP in respect of medically required heating/cooling, the person with medical needs must meet the following criteria:

• the person has a specified medical condition, AND
• the person is unable to regulate his or her body temperature because of that medical condition and requires medical heating and/or cooling in their home, AND
• the person uses additional heating and/or cooling in their home.

Note: In determining whether a person has an inability to regulate body temperature, for the purposes of EMEP, consideration should be given to whether a person would risk serious harm to his or her health without medically required heating and/or cooling.

The specified medical conditions are as follows:

• spinal cord injury at or above the T7 level, OR
• stroke, OR
• brain injury, OR
• a neurodegenerative disorder, OR
• the muscular dystrophies, OR
• full thickness burns covering more than 20% of the body surface area, OR
• rare disorders of sweating including congenital absence or mal-development of sweat glands, OR
• chronic erythrodermas.