5th Edition

Life Care Planning and Case Management Across the Lifespan

    1056 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    1056 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Celebrating 25 years since its first publication, the fifth edition of this best-selling text is the most up-to-date and complete resource available on what a life care planner does, how the life care planner does it, and issues that affect the day-to-day role of a life care planner.

    Now featuring new material on pediatric life care planning and case management, including brachial plexus injuries and neurodevelopmental disorders, this new edition provides guidance and planning for cases across the lifespan. It begins with a series of chapters examining ten different professional specializations that often contribute to a life care plan, before providing critical information for developing life care plans for individuals with different physical, mental, and cognitive conditions including spinal cord injury, brain injury, and chronic pain. Uniquely comprehensive, the book also includes chapters on the forensic and legal context of life care planning, as well as equipment/technology, evidence-based literature/resources, and special education/special needs planning relevant to pediatric life care planning.

    Also including chapters dedicated to life care planning methodology and life care planning research, this is an essential resource for anyone practicing or studying life care planning or managing the needs of those requiring chronic medical care over the lifespan.

    Part One – Historical, Methodological, Professional, Professional Issues and Research in Life Care Planning

    Chapter One – Life Care Planning: Past, Present and Future
    Roger O. Weed and Tanya Rutherford-Owen

    Chapter Two – Methodology, Scope of Practice, Standards of Practice, and Consensus in Life Care Planning
    Mary Barros-Bailey, Tanya Rutherford-Owen and Karen Preston

    Chapter Three – Research in Life Care Planning
    Aaron Mertes and Christine Reid

    Chapter Four – Credentialing in Life Care Planning
    Sherry A. Latham

    Chapter Five – Ethics in Life Care Planning
    Mary Barros-Bailey

    Chapter Six – Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Considerations for Life Care Planning
    Mary Barros-Bailey

    Part Two – Life Care Planning Across the Lifespan

    Chapter Seven – Pediatric Care Management in Life Care Planning
    Kristi B. Bagnell and Elizabeth Moberg-Wolff

    Chapter Eight – Elder Care Management in Life Care Planning
    Jennifer Crowley and Shanna Huber

    Part Three – The Transdisciplinary Team

    Chapter Nine – The Role of the Physiatrist in Life Care Planning
    Richard Paul Bonfiglio and Debbe Marcinko

    Chapter Ten – The Role of the Rehabilitation Nurse in Life Care Planning
    Amy M. Sutton

    Chapter Eleven – The Role of the Rehabilitation Counselor in Life Care Planning
    Debra E. Berens and Ann T. Neulicht

    Chapter Twelve – The Role of the Neuropsychologist in Life Care Planning
    Carol P. Walker

    Chapter Thirteen – The Role of the Neurologist in Life Care Planning
    Stephen L Nelson

    Chapter Fourteen – The Role of the Occupational Therapist in Life Care Planning
    Sarah Brown, Amy Thompson and Sarah Malloy

    Chapter Fifteen – The Role of the Physical Therapist in Life Care Planning
    Diana Bubanja

    Chapter Sixteen – The Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist and the Audiologist in Life Care Planning
    Carolyn Wiles Higdon

    Chapter Seventeen – The Role of the Prosthetist in Life Care Planning
    LeRoy Oddie

    Chapter Eighteen – The Role of the Economist in Life Care Planning
    Frederick A. Raffa and Matthew B. Raffa

    Part Four – Physical, Mental and Cognitive Conditions

    Chapter Nineteen – Life Care Planning for the Patient with an Amputation
    Robert H. Meier, Liesl Meier Rose and Christian D. Meie

    Chapter Twenty – Life Care Planning for Acquired Brain Injury
    David L. Ripley

    Chapter Twenty-one – Life Care Planning for the Patient with Burns
    Ruth B. Rimmer and Kevin N. Foster

    Chapter Twenty-two – Life Care Planning for the Patient with a Mental Health Disorder
    Alexander Amit Missner and Shani Cohen Missner

    Chapter Twenty-three – Life Care Planning for the Patient with Chronic Pain
    Jarna R. Shah, Carrie Hyde, Gregory Lawson Smith, Jaleesa Jackson, Chiedozie Uwandu and Johnathan H. Goree

    Chapter Twenty-four – Life Care Planning for the Patient with Spinal Cord Injury
    David Altman and Dan Bagwell

    Chapter Twenty-five – Life Care Planning for the Patient with Visual Impairment
    Christine Reid and Sandra Bullins

    Chapter Twenty-six – Life Care Planning for the Patient with a Brachial Plexus Injury
    Scott H. Kozin and Mona Goldman Yudkoff

    Chapter Twenty-seven – Forensic Issues in Life Care Planning
    Rick H. Robinson

    Chapter Twenty-eight – Admissibility Considerations in Life Care Planning
    Timothy F. Field

    Chapter Twenty-nine – A Plaintiff’s Attorney’s Perspective on Life Care Planning
    Bruce H. Stern

    Chapter Thirty – A Defense Attorney’s Perspective on Life Care Planning
    Aubrey Lyon and Simão Ávila

    Chapter Thirty-one – Special Education Law and Practices for the Pediatric Life Care Planner
    Brenda Eagan-Johnson and Margaret Lockovich

    Chapter Thirty-two – Special Needs Planning
    Benji Rubin

    Chapter Thirty-three – Assistive Technology, Durable Medical Equipment, and Transportation in Life Care Planning
    Irmo Marini and Laura Villarreal

    Chapter Thirty-four – A Personal Perspective of Life Care Planning
    Various authors

    Chapter Thirty-five – Life Care Planning Costing, Literature, and Summary of Resources
    Mary Barros-Bailey

    Biography

    Tanya Rutherford-Owen, PhD, CRC, CLCP, CDMS, LPC, FIALCP is a certified rehabilitation counselor, certified life care planner, and life care planning fellow. She has over 25 years of experience providing rehabilitation services and forensic work in various states. She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas in the Department of Rehabilitation Education and Research and is currently an adjunct faculty member of Capital University Law School. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Life Care Planning & Rehabilitation Research and served as a work group member in the development of the fourth edition of the Standards of Practice for Life Care Planners. She has independently researched and published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Life Care Planning, The Rehabilitation Professional and the Journal of Rehabilitation. She worked as the editor of the Journal of Life Care Planning (JLCP) from 2016-2020, prior to assuming the managing editor role for both the Journal of Life Care Planning and The Rehabilitation Professional. Dr. Owen earned a PhD in Rehabilitation in 2011 and a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology in 1996. In 1993, she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Millsaps College. She has provided testimony in various state and federal courts and in Social Security disability adjudication hearings for 20 years. In the course of her work, she has received various awards including the Sherry Jasper Memorial Award (2022) by the Foundation for Life Care Planning & Rehabilitation Research; Outstanding Life Care Planning Educator Award (2018); a President’s Commendation Award from the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP, 2017 & 2018); Best Student Paper Award by the Foundation for Life Care Planning Research & International Academy of Life Care Planners (2011); the Outstanding Rehabilitation Education & Research Doctoral Student at the University of Arkansas (2010); the Russell Baxter Award at the University of Arkansas (2010–2011); and was a Doctoral Academy Fellow at the University of Arkansas (2009–2011).

    Mary Barros-Bailey, PhD, CRC, CLCP, NCC, ABVE/AE, CVE, CCC is a Multilingual Rehabilitation Counselor (Spanish/English/Portuguese), Vocational Expert, Life Care Planner, and principal with Intermountain Vocational Services, Inc. She is a practitioner-scientist with a national, sometimes international, caseload. Dr. Barros-Bailey is adjunct faculty at Capital University Law School’s graduate certificate in life care planning and has taught with a variety of graduate programs in rehabilitation counseling. She serves as a peer reviewer or on editorial boards of peer-review publications, has presented over 200 times nationally and internationally, and authored over 130 publications such as a book, textbook chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles. Recent awards are: Best Article, The Advocate, Idaho State/Idaho Bar Foundation, Inc. (2018); Alumni Achievement Award, Middlebury Institute of International Studies (2018); Outstanding Educator Award, Foundation for Life Care Planning Research (2017); and Lifetime Achievement Award, International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (2016). Dr. Barros-Bailey is currently a Fulbright Specialist working with the largest rehabilitation counseling organization in Australia and rehabilitation counseling credentialing organization in the world to establish the first credential in forensic vocational rehabilitation in the southern hemisphere.

    Roger O. Weed, PhD, CRC/R, LPC/Ret, CCM/R, CDMS/R, FNRCA, FIALCP/R, Professor Emeritus, and Fellow Emeritus, International Academy of Life Care Planning, 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. He has authored or co-authored approximately 200 books, reviews, articles, and book chapters, more than 80 of which were specific to life care planning. Prior to achieving the PhD, Dr. Weed practiced rehabilitation counseling and consulting for 15 years in Alaska. During his more than 42 years in the profession, Dr. Weed was honored several times for his work including the Distinguished Professor Award (2006) from Georgia State University’s Alumni Association (sole recipient), Lifetime Appreciation Award from the International Commission on Health Care Certification (2011), Larry Huggins Lifetime Achievement Award (2009) from the Private Rehabilitation Specialists of Georgia, Lifetime Achievement Award (2005), from the sponsors of the International Life Care Planning Conference, Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (2004) (as well as recognition in 1997 and 1991 as the Outstanding Educator), the National Professional Services Award from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (1993), and Research Excellence Award (2003) from the College of Education at Georgia State University. Dr. Weed is the creator and senior editor for the first four editions of the Life Care Planning and Case Manager Handbook. He is one of the five founders of the original, nationwide training program leading to life care planning certification. He is also past-chair of the Georgia State Licensing Board for professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers, as well as past-president of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals.