Your Advance Care plan tells people what your wishes for your medical care are, when you can no longer speak for yourself.

An Advance Care Directive is the formalised version of your plan.

Advance Care Planning Australia is holding events across Australia during Advance Care Planning Week.

Get more information.

For more information on National Advance Care Planning Week events, go to:

https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au/nacpweek

Here’s the link to the Australian Government’s website discussing Advance Care Directives:

https://www.health.gov.au/topics/palliative-care/planning-your-palliative-care/advance-care-directive

Writing your Advance Care Directive can be hard. But there are several tools to help you, for example, ELDAC (End of Life Directions In Aged Care) has toolkits to help just about everybody. Follow this link:

https://www.eldac.com.au/tabid/4889/Default.aspx

Here are two of our own articles about advance care planning:

Advances in Advance Care directives.

Advance care planning and dementia patients.