Description:
Notwithstanding the physical, emotional and phycological challenges associated with limb loss, these ever-present stress points are compounded with the added impact of financial pressures and challenges of paying for a prosthetic care. Prosthetic services, devices and upkeep is without a doubt costly, and can be a burden to budgeting for future costs is a lack of understanding what those future costs will be. This presentation will outline the fundamentals of identifying prosthetic life time cost projections to provide a clear methodology and outline what can be expected for future expenses for ongoing prosthetic care. Focus will be on identifying all relevant and specific expected costs to obtain a prosthesis, as well as maintain, replace and repair the device over a lifetime.