Friday, July 18, 2008

What is Life Care Planning?

The Life Care Plan is a roadmap for planning your long-term care, designed with your individual and family needs in mind. The Life Care Plan includes a strategy for managing
your life utilizing all the necessary services and resources available in the local community.

Based on a thorough understanding of your long-term health care goals and needs, the
Life Care Plan provides recommendations for care regarding residency, personal lifestyle
and more, consistent with these goals and needs. Like traditional Estate Plans, the Life
Care Plan includes the legal protections and provisions you need to safeguard your assets,
honor your wishes, and care for loved ones. However, a Life Care Plan provides a more comprehensive and caring approach because it incorporates both your legal protections
and provisions and your health care goals and needs.

The Life Care Manager

A family crisis represents a difficult and frightening period in a family’s life.
Therefore, you need someone who is not only knowledgeable and experienced with
dealing with such crisis situations, but is also compassionate and empathetic to your
emotional needs.

A Life Care Manager is employed to be your support line, your advocate, your
confidant, and your friend. In conjunction with an attorney, the Life Care Plan is
developed by a Life Care Manager. Your Life Care Manager is knowledgeable about
the many services and resources available to the elder community and will assist
with the selection of home care services based on your needs, intervene when special
care situations arise, offer assisted living and nursing home options, act as a liaison,
and more.

The Ultimate Goal
The ultimate goal of the Life Care Plan is to ensure the best quality of life for you today and throughout the rest of your life. Your Life Care Plan should continue to evolve throughout your life to accommodate changes in your care situation.

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My life changed in the early to late 1990' My grandfather was living in Chevy Chase, Maryland. One night I received a call. I answered the phone, to hear that my grandfather, had fallen. Subsequently, he was taken to a nursing home. I was the attorney in the family, so everything was left to me. During this time, I had lots of questions: what options were available; what's a good nursing home, would he get good care; how are we going to pay for it? I tried to find answers to these questions. But I could only catch glimpses of the big picture. That research was my first act into the practice of elder law and life care planning. After granddad was in the nursing home. I researched this area and I started putting together what later turned out to be the beginning phases of my new life care planning practice and my calling.