| LIFE CARE PLANNING
& TESTIMONY
Life Care Planning Process
Collect Data: Gathering of comprehensive
medical, therapeutic, educational, vocational, biopsychosocial
and financial records (including tax returns of 3-5 years
prior to onset of disability, all since onset of disability
and all treatment invoices)
Interview: Meeting with patient, family
and caregivers in the residential setting using a structured
interview process and disability-specific questionnaires (if
direct access is possible)
Consult: Meeting or otherwise consulting
directly with the multidisciplinary treatment team and/or
identified independent consultants regarding case-specific
recommendations
Assess: Analyzing data to assess consistency
of treatment recommendations to standards of care and patient-specific
needs. Assess needs for additional evaluations, consultations
and treatment
Plan: Applying a consistent methodology
for gathering, validating, calculating and presenting data
Collaborate: Working within areas of competency
and consulting with other relevant experts to exchange information
for formulation of opinions and providing foundation within
appropriate standards of care
Research: Applying an impartial, consistent,
valid and reliable approach to data collection enabling an
unbiased supported foundation for case-specific plan recommendations,
technologies, replacement frequencies, durations, geographically
specific private-pay costs of reasonable and necessary goods
and services and care options
Evaluate: Reviewing the Life Care Plan
for internal consistencies, duplicative recommendations, appropriate
offsets, comprehensiveness and ease of understanding
Facilitate: Educating appropriate parties
as to plan content to elicit cooperative participation in
plan implementation
Testify: Providing consultation and educational
service to the triers of fact as to the case-specific costs
of reasonable and necessary goods and services and other long-term
care needs that will allow persons with disabilities to maximize
their health and independence
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