Ethics Interface

This column is written as a collaborative effort with Mary Barros-Bailey, journal ethics column panel member, and the editorial support of Roger Weed and Tyron Elliot. The author is grateful for their wisdom and collective experience. We would also like to announce the addition of Dianne Simmons-Grab to the journal’s Ethics Interface panel and we welcome her input, guidance, and expertise. A hearty thank you goes out to Ann Wallace for volunteering her time as an ethics panel member since its creation in 2006. Thank you Ann. The column is meant to be an educational forum for life care planners. It is not designed to offer an authoritative opinion from the editor or editorial board of the Journal of Life Care Planning, the board of the International Academy of Life Care Planners (IALCP), or the board of its parent organization, the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP), nor is it designed to represent or replace official opinions from the certifying body or other organizations associated with the practice of life care planning.