Living well with chronic conditions is never easy. Lately, however, it’s gotten harder. Follow these four tips to ensure your care remains top-of-mind.
Living well with chronic conditions is never easy. Lately, however, it’s gotten harder. Follow these four tips to ensure your care remains top-of-mind.
BiFulco Medical Group has guidance for making the decision to request a life care plan of your own after an accident or injury affects your wellbeing.
We document a patient’s entire day, beginning the moment they wake up. What life care planning challenges do they face in getting dressed, eating, walking?
It is a hard fact of life that children can be badly injured or fall ill. Here are the considerations made for children who require life care planning.
COVID-19 upended regular processes for everyone. But despite what is happening in the world around us, we have continued to do the work.
There is a question that pops up often in regards to my work in court. “How are they determining damages in this case?” The answer: It’s complicated.
The pandemic is not a welcome motivator, but we can use it to ensure we are all protected against the unexpected for end of life care.
Cerebral Palsy is a deeply complicated, permanent group of movement disorders. From a Life Care Planning perspective, the facts grow even more complicated.
As a life care planner who has worked with hundreds of injured plaintiffs as well as defense cases, below are my 3 tips for court closures and delays.
Birth injuries are gutting, tragic cases. Something goes wrong in the delivery room and/or the labor process, resulting in trauma to the child.
Struggles to get to the clinic? Trying to reduce your exposure to COVID-19, as well as other contagious illnesses, and still need to see your doctor? Telehealth is safe and easy — receive quality care from anywhere.
What differentiates interventional pain solutions are how they work; by targeting the source of the pain directly. Here are the most common treatments.
In the life care planning profession, our work is done not only to treat chronic pain effectively. We want to do so in the least invasive way possible.
It doesn’t matter how long you have dealt with your affliction; physical therapy work can deliver significant benefits in recovery.
The three crucial elements of a life care plan are: gathering the facts, outlining the details, and drawing conclusions in today’s dollars.
A gratitude journal is more than just a list of the things we are thankful for. Done in the right way, it can change the lives of the chronically ill.
Let’s talk about mental health impact for the chronically ill, and some methods you can adopt right now in your own home to help.
In life care planning, we often see mental health changes taking place in the wake of a catastrophic life event.
There are four essential objectives which must be included in a preventative life care plan as the patient receives treatment, ages, and heals.
In life care planning, upper body nerve & traction injuries are not uncommon, particularly in car accidents. Here’s how we can help.
Hip injuries tend to favor women over men. This is primarily due to poorer bone density and osteoporosis in women.
A doctor and an individual working in life care planning must view their patients differently at times. Both viewpoints are equally important.
When I tell people that I am both a physician and a life care planner, I get a lot of questions. Life care planning is a type of case management.
What is a Life Care Planner? A Life Care Planner evaluates a patient in order to create a comprehensive life care plan.
I have seen many burns and electrical injuries in my work in life care planning and as a doctor of physical medicine. A life care planner can help.
A life care planner can be called to the courtroom at any time. People are eager to move forward and get closure, and I can help.
We have Life Care Planning down to a science... First, let’s define what a Life Care Plan is… or as we like to call it… A Care Plan for Life
If you are seeking out the benefits of a life care plan by reading this post, the answer is very likely “yes.”
In the case of a serious permanent and catastrophic injury or illness or other life-altering injuries, at some point, you will be considering all of the options available to you...
A life care plan is something we all hope we will never need.
Have you been involved recently in an accident or injury where potential litigation exists? Do you suffer from a serious permanent or catastrophic injury or illness?