This text provides a quick, easy-to-understand, comprehensive, evidence-based reference for health care practitioners who formulate life care plans for persons with SCI. Features that will facilitate use by practitioners includes a variety of reference materials for health care professionals who provide life care planning/case management for SCI. Life care planning/case management practitioners would best be served by utilizing this text as a source of information and a guide from which to incorporate their professional knowledge, judgment, and ethical responsibilities when working with individuals with SCI to meet the challenge of addressing their unique long-term care needs. It is our hope this text will provide readers with tools and insights for competently addressing the long-term consequences of SCI. This text arose out of a perceived need to have a single reference that would both contain information and serve as a reminder of areas central to the life care planning process for persons with SCI. It offers practitioners a single, easy-to-use resource that summarizes - in a clear, understandable way with easily accessible references - a body of studies and research on SCI that
Life Care Planning and Spinal Cord Injury; Nature of Spinal Cord Injury; Neurologic Classification of Spinal Cord Injury; Functional Outcomes for Spinal Cord Injury; Management and Care of Spinal Cord Injury; Conclusion; Model for Life Care Planning with Spinal Cord Injury; Health; Education; Mobility; Housing; Transportation; Employment; Psychosocial Functioning; Recreation; Self Care;Resources and Legislation Related to Spinal Cord Injury; Identifying Resources; Model Spinal Cord Injury Program; Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers; Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers; Rural Health Research Centers; Department of Veterans Affairs; Spinal Cord Injury Associations/Organizations; Major Funding Sources; Disability Rights Legislation; Implications for Life Care Planning/Case Management; Sample Life Care Plan for Spinal Cord Injury; Life Care PlanReport; Referral and Background Infomation; Education and Training; Military Service; Vocational History; Pre-Injury Medical History; Post-Injury Medical History Summary; Post-Injury Complications; Records Reviewed; Functional Abilities; Activities of Daily Living; Current Management and Care; Current Financial Status; Conclusions; Life Care Plan; Forms; Life Care Plan Interview & History Questionnaire; Questions for Primary Care Physician/Physiatrist; Questions for Nurse; Questions for Occupational Therapist; Questions for Physical Therapist; Questions for Psychologist/Neuropsychologist; Supplemental Questions for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury; Appendices; Demographic Characteristics of Spinal Cord Injury; Costs Associated with Spinal Cord Injury; FIM? Instrument; Functional Rehabilitation Outcomes of Spinal Cord Injury; Aging with Spinal Cord Injury; Sexuality and Spinal Cord Injury; Mortality and Spinal Cord Injury; Leading Complications and Concerns for Spinal Cord Injury; Costs Associated with Complications Secondary to Spinal Cord Injury; Health Issues for Women with Spinal Cord Injury; Employment after Spinal Cord Injury; Common Mobility Equipment Needs for Spinal Cord Injury; Personal Assistance Guidelines for Spinal Cord Injury; Wheelchair Sports and Recreation Associations; Guidelines for Follow-up Care of Spinal Cord Injury; Ethical Issues for Life Care Planning; b>References; Glossary; Index
