Life Care Plan for Young Adult

The injured party, Ryan*, was an active teenager at the time of his injury.  He was engaged in innocent rough-housing while attending a party at a friend’s home and tragically fell, essentially breaking his neck.  The spinal cord injury he sustained rendered him a quadriplegic who will now be lifelong in a wheelchair and dependent upon others for help.  With no voluntary control over his bladder or bowels, Ryan requires catheterization daily and a complex bowel program involving the assistance of another person.  Having lost most use of his hands, Ryan underwent a surgery to restore partial hand function, but he will never be able to engage in making intricate woodcarvings or other art as he had so proudly been able to do; indeed that he had won awards for.  Because he was injured about a year prior to his high-school graduation, the injury, follow up surgeries, and necessary lengthy rehabilitation course sharply curtailed Ryan’s college plans. Read on

Balancing The Scales

At age seven, Joshua was far too young to have endured all he had. A tragic automobile accident had left him seriously injured and the sole survivor of a family of five. Alone and disabled, Joshua was cared for by his aunt who took him in with the understanding that he would need a great deal of nurturing and support. She also filed a lawsuit for damages as a result of the wrongful deaths of her extended family and the injuries that her nephew, Joshua, was left with. Read on

Life Care Planning with a Twist

A Case Study of Special Needs

Doug is a 59-year-old adult, yet remains dependent upon his aging parents for assistance with the majority of life’s key activities.  In some of these spheres, they are his sole source of support: socialization, money management, household maintenance and vocational coaching. Doug has had indications of a learning disability and compulsive hoarding tendencies throughout his youth and adult life. However, as with many children of his generation, he was never formally assessed or diagnosed. Instead, Doug’s parents took care of everything for him. They have been devout in their attention to their youngest son and now live in fear of the day that they will be unable provide him with the practical support that has enabled him to live independently with a high quality of life. Read on

Five Years at a Time

A Catastrophic Personal Injury Case Study

Gracie, profoundly developmentally delayed with spastic quadriplegia, cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder, was nineteen years old when Lifecare Innovations was first contacted to provide for a five year plan detailing her care and expenses. Gracie had outgrown her initial life care plan, completed by another third party source, given its general language and application. Since the initial plan had been developed, many major life changes had occurred in Gracie’s life. Her parents had gotten legally separated and were also separated from one another by distance as they lived in separate homes, dividing up care and responsibilities for Gracie and doing so with less than desirable communications. Gracie’s condition had progressed with a seizure disorder and scoliosis being added to her diagnostic list requiring advanced treatment. The landscape of disability had changed. Read on