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Essential Lifestyle Planning is a plan to support an individual on a day to day basis. This records the desires of the individual and how they want and need to be assisted. This plan will enable others to know how to support the individual and have information that will be needed when their family is not available.

The plans have headings of:

These provide a step by step process for staff and families to follow when supporting an individual, in order to provide consistent assistance. Essential Lifestyle Planning also articulates a quality of life intention.

In essential lifestyle Planning we have identified 5 basic skills and with 7 tools. One way to think about them is in the skill pyramid.

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