Advanced Care Directive

Making an advance care directive is one way of planning for your future health care. This includes treatments you would accept or refuse if you had a life-threatening illness or injury. In your advance care directive, you can give specific instructions about certain medical treatments.

An advance care directive will only be used if you do not have capacity to make decisions for yourself or to communicate your preferences.

A person may choose to make both an Instructional Directive and a Values Directive. The Instructional Directive will inform doctors as to the patient’s consent or refusal of treatment and the Values Directive will be relied upon in consideration of the person’s views and values.You can also include details regarding your organ donation status. Medical treatment includes treatment for both physical and mental conditions.

Appointing a support person

If you require support to make or communicate your own medical treatment decisions while you have decision-making capacity, a support person can help represent your interests.

Your support person can help you make, communicate and give effect to your medical treatment decisions. They can also access or help you to access health information about you which is relevant to medical treatment decision-making.

Your support person can represent your interests in relation to your medical treatment, including when you do not have decision-making capacity but they do not have the power to make medical treatment decisions on your behalf.

Empower your future healthcare decisions by making an advanced care directive. Ensure your wishes are respected and relieve the burden on your loved ones. With our advanced care planning services, you will;