Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498731104 ISBN 13: 9781498731102

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Life care planning is an advanced collaborative case management specialty practice focused on assessing, evaluating, coordinating, consulting, planning for, and monitoring necessary services for individuals with complex medical care needs over their lifetime. This handbook provides a comprehensive resource for all people involved with catastrophic impairments and chronic medical care case management.

The Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, 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 care–related professionals as well as the team members they are most likely to encounter as they work to build an accurate and reliable life care plan. Next, the text offers up-to-date information on the medical conditions most frequently encountered by the life care planner. The contributors, who are recognized experts in their disciplines, also address issues in forensic settings, ethics, standards, research, and credentials.

The fourth edition includes numerous chapters on general issues, as well as updated standards of practice from the International Academy of Life Care Planners (IALCP), Life Care Planning Consensus Statements, and valuable step-by-step charts and checklists.

Completely updated and expanded, this revised handbook now includes new chapters on multicultural considerations in life care planning, admissibility of life care plans in U.S. courts, and Canadian life care planning practice. Additionally, infused in other chapters, is new information on medical coding and costing for life care planners, life care planning in non-litigated contexts, as well as research and education within life care planning.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Weed, Professor Emeritus, is retired as professor and graduate rehabilitation counseling coordinator at Georgia State University. He also held doctoral student graduate faculty status in Counseling Psychology as well as Counselor Education and Practice doctoral programs.

Debra E. Berens maintains a nationwide consulting practice specializing in life care planning for children and adults with catastrophic injuries, disabilities, or chronic medical conditions since 1989. She also is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling graduate program at Georgia State University.

 

Review:

"[T]he most thorough and up-to-date account of life care planning techniques and resources that exists in this rehabilitation subspecialty....For those who are new to the practice, who want to remain well-versed in life care planning processes, who want to update their knowledge of available life care planning resources or better understand life care planning controversies, this text should certainly be the next thing you ‘Buy Now’" – Tanya Rutherford Owen, Journal of Life Care Planning

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1498731104
• ISBN 13: 9781498731102
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 940
• Editor: Weed Roger O., Berens Debra E.