This book covers the professional roles involved in life care planning, as well as a wide range of disabilities and medical conditions and general issues. Updated throughout, this fourth edition includes new chapters on life care planning for veterans, medical coding and costing for life care planners, cultural considerations in life care planning, admissibility of life care plans in U.S. Courts, life care planning in non-litigated contexts, research and education within life care planning, and Canadian life care planning practice.