Along with vocational consulting services, I offer you life care planning services. Life Care Planning Services are valuable to passionate attorneys such as yourself: One who works to your fullest potential for your clients; One who truly cares about your client; and One who strives to maximize the best outcome for your client.
A Life Care Plan will help you help you help your client.
Are You a Passionate Attorney?
Comprehensive Life Care Planning Services focus on the individual who sustained a personal or catastrophic injury, has a congenital disease or acquired illness, or suffered a traumatic event that altered his or her life leaving them with a disabling condition. The individual and his or her family is in need of planning how to live with these ongoing life changes.
What About You Mr. Big Finger?
A Life Care Plan outlines an individualized holistic program that documents your client’s specific healthcare needs and a projection of what it costs for that care over their lifetime. An economist reviews the plan to determine the present value of the costs.
Even more, a Life Care Plan helps prevent medical complications, enhances community and society participation, considers quality of life issues, and assists in maintaining emotional and psychological health. 
The person’s life now has important healthcare needs and significant costs are associated with those needs. How can you, the person’s caring and passionate attorney prove this, or show this to others, and why would you need to do so?
A Life Care Plan is helpful in many ways, here are three,
- to facilitate decision making relating to the individual’s health care, long-term care, and special needs; and perceive the related costs;
- to identify and obtain good care in the individual’s community, whether at home, an assisted living facility, or, if necessary, a nursing home; and perceive the related costs;
- to help move the litigation process forward, and ultimately to settle or win a case justifiably at the highest level possible using real data!
A Life Care Plan involves a systematic process (I do that part!) of developing a “road map” of the care, goods and services the person will need to ensure optimal health, safety and life satisfaction. A plan also highlights what it is the person will need to restore or improve their life activities to their maximum potential.
Keep in mind that while most Life Care Plans are developed for people who have suffered a traumatic injury, Life Care Plans are increasingly used for older adults with chronic conditions to anticipate their health and financial needs in later years. Do you have a client in this elite category? If so, be prepared for more future that focuses on healthy living! (Hint: Get a Life Care Plan!)
The standard definition of a Life Care Plan is a “dynamic document based upon published standards of practice, comprehensive assessment, data analysis and research, which provides an organized, concise plan for current and future needs with associated costs for individuals who have experienced catastrophic injury or have chronic health care needs. (IALCP – International Academy of Life Care Planners, 2003. Definition established during the 2000 Life Care Planning Summit.)
Above is my CRC Certificate (I have a new one that doesn’t expire until September 30, 2029!) and below is my CLCP Certificate
I need to take another picture of my newest one which expires February 28, 2026!
I am a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) and a Certified Life Care Planner (CLCP). As a professional in rehabilitation, I am able to develop a plan using advanced knowledge of specific disabilities, established treatment care resources, and a consistent objective approach toward the practical and functional elements involved in providing the treatment of catastrophic injuries and diseases.
Communication and negotiation skills are essential (so true) while working with patients, families, caregivers and treatment teams. Keep on perusing my website, which is mainly a relationship building blog, and read my writings. I’d be happy if you would truly consider how Life Care Planning Services will help you help your clients.
Contact me ~ Amy Botkin, MS, CRC, CLCP ~ at 515-778-0634 or by email at vocresources@gmail.com or amyebotkin@lcpresourcesplus.com so we can start discussing your case.
I’m here to help you help your client!
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My professional consulting practice focuses on helping attorneys help their clients with civil litigation matters.
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