ABSTRACT

Introduction ’e Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau currently denes those children with special health-care needs (CSHCN) as “all children who have, or are at increased risk for, chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children

Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 49 History of Life Care Planning ....................................................................................................51 Life Care Planning Methodology ............................................................................................... 56 Unique Considerations of Pediatric Life Care Plans ....................................................................65