Why is it important to use a life care planner that understands and incorporates Clinical Practice Guidelines into the life care plan?
Information and recommendations in a life care plan are not based solely on one professional’s opinion or experiences. Instead they are based on reasonable, ethical and appropriate analysis of client specific needs. Clinical practice guidelines related to the specific disability can serve as recommendations for patient care and disability management allowing for the most beneficial medical and therapeutic interventions along with the recommendations made by a treating or consulting medical doctor. While clinical practice guidelines provide valuable information related to specific disabilities, it is important that the life care planner understand both the benefits and limitation of their use. Clinical practice guidelines may not account for all of the individual variations that patients present and as such are not meant to be automatic inclusions without adequate research and assessment of the particular case. For example, many such published guidelines do not take into account aging w
