What is the test for calculating future care costs for an elderly plaintiff in a motor vehicle accident?

Future care costs must take into account positive and negative contingencies. These contingencies include the possibility that a plaintiff may have suffered the expense of a service regardless of the collision because of advancing age: see Drodge v. Kozak, 2011 BCSC 1316. The measure of a future care award must be adjusted to reflect the specific care needs of a plaintiff; the assessment of those needs depends on medical evidence and opinions concerning the nature and duration of a required service.