Handbook of Medical Aspects of Disability and Rehabilitation for Life Care Planning

ISBN-13: 9781032271606 / Twarda / 2024 / 640 str.

Opis

This textbook is an essential resource for life care planners in understanding and assessing a range of medical disabilities, life care planning as a health care service delivery practice, certification under the International Commission on Health Care Certification, as well as the path to rehabilitation for mild to catastrophic injuries.

Spis treści

Preface.  Foreword by Timothy F. Field.  1.Life Care Planning: History, Process, and the Written Document.  2.Disability Legislation in the United States and Canada.  3.Third-Party Provider Systems.  4.Independent Medical Evaluations.  5.Significant Body Systems.  6.Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Illness and Disability.  7.The Pediatric Life Care Plan and Vocational Evaluation.  8.Disability Sequelae of Immobility: A Systems Perspective.   9.Acquired Brain Injury.  Appendix 9.1:Impact of Injuries on Activities of Daily Living [ADLS] and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs).  Appendix 9.2:Life Care Plan Subsection Charts.  10.Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): A Neurosurgeon’s Perspective.  11.Post-Traumatic Headaches.  12.Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.  13.Spinal Disorders.  Appendix 13.1:Glossary for All Healthcare Professionals.  14.Peripheral Neuropathies.  15.Amputations.  16.Pain Medicine and Life Care Planning.  17.Burn Trauma and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery.  18.Canadian Life Care Planning and Cost Projection Analysis: A Comparison of Process and Application.  19.Functional Capacity Evaluation: Process, Utility and Life Care Planning and Case Management Applications.  20.The Medical Cost Projection.  21.Expert Witness Guidelines.  22. The International Commission on Health Care Certification: Regulation and Accreditation in Life Care Planning. 

O autorze

Virgil Robert May III, Rehabilitation Practitioner, Doctor of Rehabilitation, Southern Illinois University, US

Richard Bowman, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, M.D., Certified Life Care Planner, West Virginia, US

Steven Barna, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (MD), and Certified Life Care Planner (CLCP), Florida, US