The field of Life Care Planning is rapidly evolving in the United States, Canada, and internationally.  The Life Care Plan is a document that identifies the current and future care needs (i.e. medical, rehabilitation, equipment, home support needs) of individuals with a wide range of diagnoses (i.e. orthopaedic, brain injury, spinal cord injury, chronic pain, etc.). The Life Care Plan is primarily used for litigation purposes in order to assist plaintiff and defense lawyers with identifying total cost of future care related to the individual’s disability. 

This course will teach a systematic and researched step-by-step methodology for file review, data collection, conducting LCP interviews, home assessments, functional testing, researching costs, and providing solid rationale for recommendations.  Some of the unique features covered in this course include:  objective functional testing within the context of life care planning, aging-related research, and determining level of home support services required.

This course is best suited for occupational therapists, physical therapists, rehabilitation nurses, and vocational counselors.  Course participants should have an educational background in the following:  pathology; the physical, cognitive, and emotional implications of specific disabilities; functional assessment; and rehabilitation planning.  The course is well suited to clinicians wishing to enter the field of Life Care Planning and equally well suited to those professionals already working in the area who wish to strengthen the reliability and validity of their current LCP protocols.