About Life Care Planning Services

The American Amputee Foundation, Inc. began offering Life Care Planning Services in 1978. As a nonprofit organization which provides services primarily for amputees and their families and, secondarily, those with spinal cord injury, we have limited our life care planning services to those clients. It is our opinion that no one individual can be an expert in all disabilities, with exception of some highly trained and specialized physicians. Furthermore, because of the amount of research material of which we must stay abreast, we feel that by focusing on amputation and spinal injury we can better serve our clients.

WHAT IS A LIFE CARE PLAN?

“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 cost, for individuals who experienced catastrophic injury ro have chronic health care needs” (Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook edited by Roger Weed, Ph.D., CRC Press, 1998).