In 1988, after many years of work with persons with disabilities and their families, a group of parents and rehabilitation professionals created Disabled and Alone/Life Services for the Handicapped, Inc. Organized as a 501(c)(3) national non-profit agency under the rules of the Internal Revenue Service, Life Services established itself as a major force to (1) help families plan for the time when they will no longer be here and (2) provide direct services to disabled people whose families have left assets for their care.

Life Services provides an excellent answer to the question most often asked by parents of a son or daughter with a disability: "Who will look after our child when we are gone?"