Main description:

Life Care Planning is an advanced collaborative practice concerned with coordinating, accessing, evaluating, and monitoring necessary services for individuals with significant medical adversity. This handbook provides a comprehensive resource for all people involved with catastrophic impairments who need to solve complex medical care problems. Updating life care planning references, the third edition presents new chapters on home assessments, vehicle modification, day-in-the-life videos, and elder care. This edition also adds several new contributors who have completely rewritten or updated several chapters. The text offers an overview of issues relevant to selected disabilities, bringing together various concepts of life care plans into one publication and reviewing current thoughts, beliefs, and procedures.

The book begins by defining the roles played by each of the key team members working with the life care planner. It provides planners with insights critical to successful interactions with medical and health-related professionals as well as the team members they are most likely to encounter as they work to build a successful and accurate life care plan. Next, the book offers up-to-date information on the disabilities most frequently encountered by the life care planner. The contributors also address issues typically left out of similar texts which have been made critical by Daubert v. Merrell Dow in the forensic setting - issues related to ethics, standards, research and credentials.

Build a Client-Centered Life Care Plan

Includes the Updated Standards of Practice from the International Academy of Life Care Planners (IALCP)

Supplies Valuable Step-by-Step Charts and Checklists

Completely Revised and Expanded with Five New Chapters

Contents:

Life Care Planning: Past, Present, and Future, Roger O. Weed

The Role of the Physiatrist in Life Care Planning, Richard Paul Bonfiglio

The Role of the Nurse Case Manager in Life Care Planning, Susan Riddick-Grisham

The Role of the Vocational Counselor in Life Care Planning, Debra E. Berens and Roger O. Weed

The Role of the Psychologist in Life Care Planning, Randall L. Thomas and Anne Sluis Powers

The Role of the Neuropsychologist in Life Care Planning, Carol Walker

The Role of the Occupational Therapist in Life Care Planning, Nancy L. Mitchell

The Role of the Physical Therapist in Life Care Planning, Art Peddle

The Role of the SLP and Assistive Technology in Life Care Planning, Carolyn Wiles Higdon

The Role of the Audiologist in Life Care Planning, Carolyn W. Higdon and William Mustain

The Role of the Economist in Life Care Planning, Everett G. Dillman

Life Care Planning for the Amputee, Robert H. Meier, III

Life Care Planning for Acquired Brain Injury, David L. Ripley and Roger O. Weed

Life Care Planning for the Burn Patient, Kevin N. Foster and Ruth B. Rimmer

Life Care Planning for the HIV/AIDS Patient, Sherie L. Kendall

Life Care Planning for Depressive Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Schizophrenia, Sherie L. Kendall

Life Care Planning for People with Chronic Pain, Denise D. Lester and Robert Litwack

Life Care Planning for Spinal Cord Injury, Terry Winkler, Roger O. Weed, and Debra E. Berens

Life Care Planning for Organ Transplantation, Dan M. Bagwell and Jennifer Milton

Life Care Planning for the Visually Impaired, Terry Winkler and Roger O. Weed

Elder Care Management Life Care Planning Principles, Patricia McCollom and Dorothy Zydowicz

Forensic Issues for Life Care Planners, Roger O. Weed

A Personal Perspective of Life Care Planning, Raymond L. Arrona and Mamie Walters, as told to Anna N. Herrington

A Plaintiff 's Attorney's Perspective on Life Care Planning, Tyron C. Elliott

A Defense Attorney's Perspective on Life Care Planning, Tracy Raffles Gunn

NEW! Life Care Planning and the Elder Law Attorney, Terry C. Cox and F. Auston Wortman, III

NEW! Day-in-the-Life Video Production in Life Care Planning, J. Mat Hunt, Jr.

Ethical Issues for the Life Care Planner, Roger O. Weed and Debra E. Berens

Reliability of Life Care Plans: A Comparison of Original and Updated Plans, Amy M. Sutton, Paul M. Deutsch, Roger O. Weed, and Debra E. Berens

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): From Case Law to Case Management and Life Care Planning Practice, Lewis E. Vierling

Technology and Life Care Planning, Randall L. Thomas

Life Care Planning Resources, Julie A. Kitchen and Laura L. Deutsch

Medical Equipment Choices and the Role of the Rehab Equipment Specialist in Life Care Planning, Paul Amsterdam

NEW! Home Assessment in Life Care Planning, Jim Karl and Roger O. Weed

NEW! Vehicle Modifications: Useful Considerations of Life Care Planners, Roger O. Weed and Lisa R. Engelhart

NEW! Credentialing and Other Issues in Life Care Planning, Roger O. Weed and Debra E. Berens

Appendix I: Standards of Practice for Life Care Planners

Appendix II: Bibliography of Life Care Planning and Related Publications