Chapter 2: Costing Framework Development Project Scope and Objectives

The purpose of this project was to create a Life Care Planning Costing Framework to guide life care planners with cost research and decisionmaking, while acknowledging that the Costing Framework is not prescriptive or designed as "one-size-fits-all" for all situations.Costing research requires flexibility and clinical judgment.Each costing research technique is suited to different situations.With this acknowledgement, the following goals, development processes, tasks, and principles were identified for this project: Costing Framework Development Project ChargeGuidance to identify the purpose and directive for the Costing Framework project was based on the 2017 summit attendees' consensus (Albee et al.,