LIFE CARE PLANNING: YESTERDAYA ND TODAY

The term “life care plan” was introduced into the legal literature in 1981 by Ors. Paul Deutsch and Fred Raffa in the publication, Damages in Tort Actions. The publication identified guidelines for specifying damages in civil litigation cases. In 1985, Ors. Paul Deutsch and Horace Sawyer introduced the concept to the profession when they published the classic Guide to Rehabilitation. Within that text, which is updated yearly, a life care plan was identified as a part of rehabilitation evaluation to project the impact of catastrophic injury on an individual’s future.