How is validity related to life care planning?
Validity is case specific. A standard, “valid” life care plan for all people who have a spinal cord injury does not exist. Each life care plan must be valid for the individual for whom it was developed. If life care planning is a valid process, then a good life care plan will accomplish its mission: to decrease the frequency and severity of medical complications for a particular patient, avoiding case management by crisis intervention, and improving the patient’s overall quality of life. Establishing the validity of the life care planning process shows that the basic tenets of life care planning are sound. The Foundation for Life Care Planning Research has conducted and published research projects on the reliability and validity of the life care planning process and funds doctoral dissertation research in this area as well.
