Start2Talk
An online campaign to get people to Start2Talk about their future wishes.
The campaign asks people to "choose it or lose it" and encourages people to talk to their loved ones about their future health and financial wishes should they ever be in a position not to make those decisions themselves.
Their website "Planning Ahead" - Start 2 Talk, is an interactive resource to help plan for:
Planning ahead is thinking about your future, and putting things in place so that your choices will be known and acted on if you cannot express these choices yourself later in life. This may happen if you have a sudden accident, become very ill or develop a condition such as dementia that affects your memory and your planning ability. Planning ahead can include issues related to your finances, lifestyle or health care.
This website will help you to plan ahead for your future. It is a practical and comprehensive resource for people across Australia just like you. It gives you the information you need to make decisions and helps you to put your decisions into action.
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Information and Services
This Information and Services page helps health professionals and aged care staff to access information on providing palliative care and advance care planning for older people and their families. Care information is organised using the eight domains found in the ELDAC Care Model. The Care Model reflects the areas of care which need considering through the end of life stages.
Links to services involved in the delivery of Palliative Care, Primary Care and Aged Care are also provided in the ‘Find Services’ section, as are additional resources to assist and guide in managing the care of older Australians who identify or belong to diverse population groups. There is also a link to the Common ELDAC Clinical Tools that are consistent across the ELDAC Toolkits.
https://www.eldac.com.au/tabid/4890/Default.aspx
Power of Attorney forms:
https://www.publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/power-of-attorney-and-advance-health-directive-forms
Easy to download.
Power of attorney and advance health directive forms - Forms - Publications and Resources An enduring power of attorney allows you to appoint someone you trust to make decisions for you and continues if you lose capacity to make decisions yourself.
An advance health directive allows you to give directions about your future healthcare. You can also use this form to appoint an attorney(s) for health matters.
A general power of attorney allows you to appoint someone you trust to make financial decisions for you while you have capacity to make those decisions but ends once you lose capacity to make those decisions (unless it is a power of attorney given as security).
Components of advance care planning Advance care plans
https://www.qld.gov.au/health/support/end-of-life/advance-care-planning
https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au/create-your-plan/create-your-plan-qld
Advance care planning is a broad concept. It may take the form of structured conversations with health professionals or informal discussions with family and friends.
Advance care planning does not always result in written documents.
The conversations themselves can be very beneficial.
Ideally though, advance care planning leads to a written advance care plan outlining a person’s preferences for future health and personal care.
Advance care plans are relied on only if a person loses their ability to make or express their own decisions. Advance care plans may be a letter to the person responsible for the decision-making, an entry in a medical report, an oral instruction or any other form of communication.
It may also take the form of a more formal document like an ‘advance directive’ or an instrument appointing a substitute decision-maker.
Advance directives An advance directive is a formal document that records a person’s directions for their future care and treatment. Advance directives are not the same as clinical care plans, treatment plans or resuscitation plans prepared by clinicians to guide clinical care.
Advance directives have traditionally been narrowly focused on specific medical treatment decisions. Increasingly, directives are including broader information about a person’s values, goals and what is important to them in life.
Advance directives are recognised in all states and territories, though there are variations in terminology and scope. In the Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, advance directives are provided for in legislation. New South Wales and Tasmania do not have legislation providing for advance directives, but legally binding advance directives can still be made.
All states and territories have specific forms that can be used to make an advance directive.
This paper was published on 20 June 2019.
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Powers of attorney, enduring powers of attorney and enduring guardians
If you need help managing your affairs, you can choose to give someone you know and trust, or a specialist organisation (such as the Public Trustee and Guardian in NSW) the power to make decisions for you. This will allow the person to manage your affairs when you do not want to, or are no longer able to. For example, a person may find it hard to sign documents because they have poor eyesight or unsteady hands.
Depending on your situation, this may include:
New webpage: Law on capacity and consent to treatment
A new webpage on Capacity and consent to medical treatment is now available on End of Life Law in Australia. The webpage explores the requirements for valid consent to medical treatment, and the law on when an adult will have capacity to make decisions about medical treatment. It also provides information about the law on these issues by State and Territory.
Legal rights
A practical guide to help people diagnosed with dementia, and their families and carers, better understand the legal issues they may be faced with.
Read or download Dementia and your legal rights
- in Queensland - Advance Care Directive
https://end-of-life.qut.edu.au/advance-directives/state-and-territory-laws/queensland#547671
Superannuation and dementia
People with dementia and their families often ask whether they have a right to access their superannuation early to assist with their financial situation, given that they have a terminal illness.
Read or download Superannuation and dementia
Dementia Screening Test. Watch the video...
and the Standardized Mini-Mental (SMMSE)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
In Queensland:
https://www.dementia.org.au/planning-ahead/planning-tools/QLD/how-do-i-make-a-will
Guides you through:
that Advance Care Planning in Qld and Standing in a Person's Shoes as a Substitute Decision Maker, is just SO Important, particularly for those with dementia.
Advance care planning advisory service
Call us 1300 208 582
Call us now with your advance care planning questions, 9am - 5pm (AEST) Monday to Friday.
Have a look at some of these videos to learn more...
https://www.dementia.org.au/about-dementia/resources/videos/latest
20 December 2018
Creating a strong estate planA well prepared and executed estate plan can not only save your estate unnecessary costs in the future but can also save your loved ones from unnecessary stress after your death.
Key Points:
End of Life Law in Australia provides accurate, practical and relevant information to assist you in navigating the challenging legal issues that can arise with end of life decision-making.
As Australia’s population rapidly ages, legal and ethical issues at the end of life are arising more frequently. Research shows the law in this area is complex and often confusing for patients, families and health professionals, and that barriers to accessible information exist. Our goal is to support the community to know, and better understand, the law at end of life, enhance patient and family participation in decision-making, and improve end of life experiences.
The End of Life Law in Australia website seeks to assist people at all stages of life whether they are dealing with an end of life situation personally, or educating themselves about the law in this area. It addresses some frequently asked questions such as:
Laws relating to death, dying and decision-making can be complicated, and vary between Australian States and Territories. To help you navigate these laws and this website, the legal overview summarises key concepts. Where possible, this website provides external links to relevant publications, forms, organisations and other resources in each Australian State and Territory
Find out more about the law at end of life
For more information about the law at the end of life, select a topic below:
This website is an initiative of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. It is designed to be used by patients, families, health and legal practitioners, the media, policymakers and the broader community to access information about Australian laws relating to death, dying and decision-making at the end of life.
These laws are very complex, particularly in Australia where the law differs between States and Territories, and where areas of uncertainty about the law exist. This website provides you with a broad introduction to these laws. It can also help you stay up to date with Recent Developments in the end of life area.
29 September 2017
We, the families, are Deeply Grateful for this website. Something that most of us were not aware of. Many thanks.
and now that YOU have taken that first step; do have a think about talking about and setting up your own Advance Care Planning - click on Qld
Advanced illness or serious injury can sometimes mean that people cannot make their own decisions about healthcare treatment. This can happen to people of all ages, and especially towards end of life. Writing an Advance Care Plan lets you say what you would want, if you are ever unable to communicate for yourself. Making healthcare decisions for others can be difficult. An advance care plan can give peace of mind and comfort as preferences are clear, understood and respected.
Advance Care Planning Advisory Service Support Care Planning is available Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm AEST
Just call 1300 208 582 and have a confidential chat. Do ask questions, as these are The people to ask.
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and for that extra peace of mind:
Brochures from the Public Trustee in Qld to help explain Enduring Power of Attorney for Financial, Personal and Health Matters...
Download the appropriate Brochures from this site:
https://www.flipsnack.com/publictrusteeqld/lets-talk-about-enduring-powers-of-attorney.html
To find out more:
http://www.pt.qld.gov.au/enduring-powers-of-attorney/about-enduring-powers-of-attorney/
CALL US: 1300 360 044
or Make An Enquiry: [email protected]
11 September 2016
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Advance Health Directives and 'Less Restrictive Way' of Treatment
ADVANCE HEALTH DIRECTIVES FOR MENTAL HEALTH
The new Mental Health Act took effect in Queensland from March 2017. It enables you to express your views, wishes, and treatment preferences formally in a new document called an Advance Health Directive for mental health. This allows you to have your say and plan for future health care treatment should you become unwell. Consumer, Family and Carer workshops are free and for individuals who experience mental health concerns, their family and carers.
With the new advance health directive for mental health you can:
ƒ discuss future treatment preferences with your doctor and have a formal document to reflect your wishes
ƒ inform your treating team about your recovery journey plans
ƒ choose support people you trust to assist in making healthcare decisions for you, should you become unwell. You can also set limits on the decisions they can make.
Queensland Health ,
Mental Health Act 2016,
Chief Psychiatrist Policy,
Effective date: 5 March 2017
Review by: 5 March 2020
Supersedes: NIL
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/465176/cpp-advance-directives.pdf
Advance Health Directives and ‘Less Restrictive Way’ of Treatment
Promoting the use of advance health directives and other alternatives to treatment without consent under the Mental Health Act 2016 gives individuals greater control over their future healthcare and supports consumer empowerment and patient recovery.
The doctor or authorised mental health practitioner must search the patient’s health records on CIMHA. The doctor or authorised mental health practitioner must also ask any support persons who are with the person whether the person has made an advance health directive, appointed an attorney or has a guardian for healthcare appointed. The Act authorises QCAT to disclose the name and contact details of a personal guardian (section 796).
2. Scope This Policy is mandatory for all authorised mental health services (AMHSs). An authorised doctor, authorised mental health practitioner, AMHS administrator, or other person performing a function or exercising a power under the Act must comply with this Policy.
This Policy only applies in circumstances where a health practitioner assesses that a person does not have capacity to make decisions about his or her own health care.
This Policy does not apply to persons on a forensic order or treatment support order.
This Policy must be implemented in a way that is consistent with the Objects and Principles of the Act.
Authorising legislation Section 305(1)(a) of the Mental Health Act 2016.
An online campaign to get people to Start2Talk about their future wishes.
The campaign asks people to "choose it or lose it" and encourages people to talk to their loved ones about their future health and financial wishes should they ever be in a position not to make those decisions themselves.
Their website "Planning Ahead" - Start 2 Talk, is an interactive resource to help plan for:
- Healthcare
- Lifestyle
- and Financial decisions
Planning ahead is thinking about your future, and putting things in place so that your choices will be known and acted on if you cannot express these choices yourself later in life. This may happen if you have a sudden accident, become very ill or develop a condition such as dementia that affects your memory and your planning ability. Planning ahead can include issues related to your finances, lifestyle or health care.
This website will help you to plan ahead for your future. It is a practical and comprehensive resource for people across Australia just like you. It gives you the information you need to make decisions and helps you to put your decisions into action.
---------------------------------
Information and Services
This Information and Services page helps health professionals and aged care staff to access information on providing palliative care and advance care planning for older people and their families. Care information is organised using the eight domains found in the ELDAC Care Model. The Care Model reflects the areas of care which need considering through the end of life stages.
Links to services involved in the delivery of Palliative Care, Primary Care and Aged Care are also provided in the ‘Find Services’ section, as are additional resources to assist and guide in managing the care of older Australians who identify or belong to diverse population groups. There is also a link to the Common ELDAC Clinical Tools that are consistent across the ELDAC Toolkits.
https://www.eldac.com.au/tabid/4890/Default.aspx
- Advance Care Planning
- Recognise End of Life
- Palliative Care
- Access Palliative Care Needs
- Provide Palliative Care
- Primary Care
- Work Together
- Respond to Deterioration
- Aged Care
- Managing Dying
- Bereavement
Power of Attorney forms:
https://www.publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/power-of-attorney-and-advance-health-directive-forms
Easy to download.
Power of attorney and advance health directive forms - Forms - Publications and Resources An enduring power of attorney allows you to appoint someone you trust to make decisions for you and continues if you lose capacity to make decisions yourself.
An advance health directive allows you to give directions about your future healthcare. You can also use this form to appoint an attorney(s) for health matters.
A general power of attorney allows you to appoint someone you trust to make financial decisions for you while you have capacity to make those decisions but ends once you lose capacity to make those decisions (unless it is a power of attorney given as security).
Components of advance care planning Advance care plans
https://www.qld.gov.au/health/support/end-of-life/advance-care-planning
https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au/create-your-plan/create-your-plan-qld
Advance care planning is a broad concept. It may take the form of structured conversations with health professionals or informal discussions with family and friends.
Advance care planning does not always result in written documents.
The conversations themselves can be very beneficial.
Ideally though, advance care planning leads to a written advance care plan outlining a person’s preferences for future health and personal care.
Advance care plans are relied on only if a person loses their ability to make or express their own decisions. Advance care plans may be a letter to the person responsible for the decision-making, an entry in a medical report, an oral instruction or any other form of communication.
It may also take the form of a more formal document like an ‘advance directive’ or an instrument appointing a substitute decision-maker.
Advance directives An advance directive is a formal document that records a person’s directions for their future care and treatment. Advance directives are not the same as clinical care plans, treatment plans or resuscitation plans prepared by clinicians to guide clinical care.
Advance directives have traditionally been narrowly focused on specific medical treatment decisions. Increasingly, directives are including broader information about a person’s values, goals and what is important to them in life.
Advance directives are recognised in all states and territories, though there are variations in terminology and scope. In the Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, advance directives are provided for in legislation. New South Wales and Tasmania do not have legislation providing for advance directives, but legally binding advance directives can still be made.
All states and territories have specific forms that can be used to make an advance directive.
This paper was published on 20 June 2019.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Powers of attorney, enduring powers of attorney and enduring guardians
If you need help managing your affairs, you can choose to give someone you know and trust, or a specialist organisation (such as the Public Trustee and Guardian in NSW) the power to make decisions for you. This will allow the person to manage your affairs when you do not want to, or are no longer able to. For example, a person may find it hard to sign documents because they have poor eyesight or unsteady hands.
Depending on your situation, this may include:
- the power to make decisions about your financial and legal affairs
- decisions about your lifestyle (including where you live) and what medical or health treatment you should receive.
New webpage: Law on capacity and consent to treatment
A new webpage on Capacity and consent to medical treatment is now available on End of Life Law in Australia. The webpage explores the requirements for valid consent to medical treatment, and the law on when an adult will have capacity to make decisions about medical treatment. It also provides information about the law on these issues by State and Territory.
Legal rights
A practical guide to help people diagnosed with dementia, and their families and carers, better understand the legal issues they may be faced with.
Read or download Dementia and your legal rights
- in Queensland - Advance Care Directive
https://end-of-life.qut.edu.au/advance-directives/state-and-territory-laws/queensland#547671
Superannuation and dementia
People with dementia and their families often ask whether they have a right to access their superannuation early to assist with their financial situation, given that they have a terminal illness.
Read or download Superannuation and dementia
Dementia Screening Test. Watch the video...
and the Standardized Mini-Mental (SMMSE)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
In Queensland:
https://www.dementia.org.au/planning-ahead/planning-tools/QLD/how-do-i-make-a-will
Guides you through:
- Making a Will
- How to legally appoint someone to make Financial Decisions on my behalf?
- Who will the Doctor ask to give consent for my Medical Treatment if I am not able to give my own consent?
- How do I legally appoint someone of my choice to make Health and Lifestyle decisions for me if I lose capacity to make my own decisions in the future?
- Apart from appointing a substitute Decision-maker, how else can I document my wishes?
- Will my Advance Directive and other legal documents relating to planning ahead from other part of Australia be accepted in Queensland, and will documents written here be accepted in other State and Territories?
- Are there programs, websites or documents of interest related to an Advanced Health Directive in Queensland?
that Advance Care Planning in Qld and Standing in a Person's Shoes as a Substitute Decision Maker, is just SO Important, particularly for those with dementia.
Advance care planning advisory service
Call us 1300 208 582
Call us now with your advance care planning questions, 9am - 5pm (AEST) Monday to Friday.
Have a look at some of these videos to learn more...
https://www.dementia.org.au/about-dementia/resources/videos/latest
20 December 2018
Creating a strong estate planA well prepared and executed estate plan can not only save your estate unnecessary costs in the future but can also save your loved ones from unnecessary stress after your death.
Key Points:
- A well-drafted Will will prevent potential family conflict after you die
- If you don't have a Will, then your estate may not be dealt with as you wished
- You should include funeral and burial wishes in your estate plan
End of Life Law in Australia provides accurate, practical and relevant information to assist you in navigating the challenging legal issues that can arise with end of life decision-making.
As Australia’s population rapidly ages, legal and ethical issues at the end of life are arising more frequently. Research shows the law in this area is complex and often confusing for patients, families and health professionals, and that barriers to accessible information exist. Our goal is to support the community to know, and better understand, the law at end of life, enhance patient and family participation in decision-making, and improve end of life experiences.
The End of Life Law in Australia website seeks to assist people at all stages of life whether they are dealing with an end of life situation personally, or educating themselves about the law in this area. It addresses some frequently asked questions such as:
- Who makes medical treatment decisions for a person who is too unwell to make decisions themselves?
- Does a doctor have to follow the instructions in an advance directive?
- Can a dying patient or their family refuse or demand medical treatment needed to keep the patient alive?
- Is euthanasia and assisted suicide legal in Australia?
- Can a child with a terminal illness make their own medical treatment decisions?
- What happens if family members disagree with a person’s decision to donate their organs when they die?
Laws relating to death, dying and decision-making can be complicated, and vary between Australian States and Territories. To help you navigate these laws and this website, the legal overview summarises key concepts. Where possible, this website provides external links to relevant publications, forms, organisations and other resources in each Australian State and Territory
Find out more about the law at end of life
For more information about the law at the end of life, select a topic below:
- About
- Recent Developments
- Legal Overview
- Advance Directives
- Stopping Treatment
- Palliative Care
- Organ Donation
- Euthanasia and Assisted Dying
- Research Projects
- Publications and Presentations
This website is an initiative of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. It is designed to be used by patients, families, health and legal practitioners, the media, policymakers and the broader community to access information about Australian laws relating to death, dying and decision-making at the end of life.
These laws are very complex, particularly in Australia where the law differs between States and Territories, and where areas of uncertainty about the law exist. This website provides you with a broad introduction to these laws. It can also help you stay up to date with Recent Developments in the end of life area.
29 September 2017
We, the families, are Deeply Grateful for this website. Something that most of us were not aware of. Many thanks.
and now that YOU have taken that first step; do have a think about talking about and setting up your own Advance Care Planning - click on Qld
- Ask yourself, what if YOU were very unwell, and not able to communicate your wishes to others,
- Who would you want to speak for you?
- What would you want them to say?
Advanced illness or serious injury can sometimes mean that people cannot make their own decisions about healthcare treatment. This can happen to people of all ages, and especially towards end of life. Writing an Advance Care Plan lets you say what you would want, if you are ever unable to communicate for yourself. Making healthcare decisions for others can be difficult. An advance care plan can give peace of mind and comfort as preferences are clear, understood and respected.
Advance Care Planning Advisory Service Support Care Planning is available Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm AEST
Just call 1300 208 582 and have a confidential chat. Do ask questions, as these are The people to ask.
-------------------------------
and for that extra peace of mind:
Brochures from the Public Trustee in Qld to help explain Enduring Power of Attorney for Financial, Personal and Health Matters...
Download the appropriate Brochures from this site:
- Let's Talk About Elder Abuse
- A Guide for Financial Management Clients
- A Guide for Beneficiaries
- Let's Talk About Bereavement
- Let's Talk About Intestacy
- Let's Talk About Enduring Powers of Attorney
- Let's Talk About Executor Services
- Let's Talk About Wills
https://www.flipsnack.com/publictrusteeqld/lets-talk-about-enduring-powers-of-attorney.html
To find out more:
http://www.pt.qld.gov.au/enduring-powers-of-attorney/about-enduring-powers-of-attorney/
CALL US: 1300 360 044
or Make An Enquiry: [email protected]
11 September 2016
---------------------------
Advance Health Directives and 'Less Restrictive Way' of Treatment
ADVANCE HEALTH DIRECTIVES FOR MENTAL HEALTH
The new Mental Health Act took effect in Queensland from March 2017. It enables you to express your views, wishes, and treatment preferences formally in a new document called an Advance Health Directive for mental health. This allows you to have your say and plan for future health care treatment should you become unwell. Consumer, Family and Carer workshops are free and for individuals who experience mental health concerns, their family and carers.
With the new advance health directive for mental health you can:
ƒ discuss future treatment preferences with your doctor and have a formal document to reflect your wishes
ƒ inform your treating team about your recovery journey plans
ƒ choose support people you trust to assist in making healthcare decisions for you, should you become unwell. You can also set limits on the decisions they can make.
Queensland Health ,
Mental Health Act 2016,
Chief Psychiatrist Policy,
Effective date: 5 March 2017
Review by: 5 March 2020
Supersedes: NIL
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/465176/cpp-advance-directives.pdf
Advance Health Directives and ‘Less Restrictive Way’ of Treatment
- Purpose This Policy outlines the relevant provisions of the Mental Health Act 2016, and the Chief Psychiatrist Policy, in relation to advance health directives and treating persons in a ‘less restrictive way’ (as defined in the Act).
Promoting the use of advance health directives and other alternatives to treatment without consent under the Mental Health Act 2016 gives individuals greater control over their future healthcare and supports consumer empowerment and patient recovery.
The doctor or authorised mental health practitioner must search the patient’s health records on CIMHA. The doctor or authorised mental health practitioner must also ask any support persons who are with the person whether the person has made an advance health directive, appointed an attorney or has a guardian for healthcare appointed. The Act authorises QCAT to disclose the name and contact details of a personal guardian (section 796).
2. Scope This Policy is mandatory for all authorised mental health services (AMHSs). An authorised doctor, authorised mental health practitioner, AMHS administrator, or other person performing a function or exercising a power under the Act must comply with this Policy.
This Policy only applies in circumstances where a health practitioner assesses that a person does not have capacity to make decisions about his or her own health care.
This Policy does not apply to persons on a forensic order or treatment support order.
This Policy must be implemented in a way that is consistent with the Objects and Principles of the Act.
Authorising legislation Section 305(1)(a) of the Mental Health Act 2016.