Advance Care & Life Planning
At Living Bridge Community Care, we provide comprehensive Advance Care and Life Planning Services to help you take control of your future health and life decisions. Our dedicated team supports you in understanding and documenting your preferences for health care, medical care, and end-of-life choices, ensuring your wishes are respected and followed.
Advance Care Planning Services
Advance Health Directive
Guidance: We offer informed guidance to help you understand and document your future health care, medical care, and end-of-life care choices.
Doctor Review: Assistance with arranging a doctor’s appointment to review and sign your AHD, including transportation if needed.
Legal Formalities: Witnessing and signing by a JP Qualified professional.
Documentation: Upload of your AHD to MyGov-My Health record, Queensland Health electronic hospital record, and Queensland Ambulance Service via The State Office of Advance Care Planning.
An Advance Health Directive is the legal document in Queensland –
that allows you to give directions about your future health care, medical care and end-of-life care choices to health professionals while you have the capacity to do so. It comes into effect when you do not have capacity, whether in the short term or the long term to make your own health care, medical care and end of life care decisions.
Our End-of-Life Doulas, are passionate about assisting you and your loved ones to make informed future health care, medical care and end-of-life care choices while you are living well. Our hope is to activate conversations and curiosity to encourage health and death literacy by providing space to talk about and make plans that are consistent with your values and wishes.
Statement of Choices
Values-Based Document: Support to complete a document recording your wishes and choices for future health and end-of-life care.
Guidance: While not included in Qld legislation, this document can guide substitute decision-makers and clinicians if you are unable to communicate your wishes.
Forms:
Form A for individuals with cognitive capacity.
Form B for individuals who have lost cognitive capacity.
Enduring Power of Attorney (EPOA)
Decision-Making: Allows you to appoint a trusted person to make decisions on your behalf for health or financial matters, or both.
Life Planning Services
Wills
Guidance: Assistance to document and witness your Last Will and Testament.
Government Forms and Claims
Paperwork Support: Help with completing and lodging paperwork to government agencies, including forms for taxi vouchers and travel subsidies.
Personal Administration
Administrative Support: Assistance with paying bills, attending to emails, and handling correspondence.
Hoarding and Squalor
Decluttering: Support for downsizing and creative decluttering.
End of Life Care Support
Doula Support: End of Life Care Doula Support to ensure no one dies alone.
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Social Worker Services
Facilitation: Our social workers help facilitate Advance Care Planning and Life Planning Services, offering both telephone and online consultations.
Did you Know?
The above supports may be utilised as a single service or part of an ongoing services package tailored to individual need.
If you have a Home Care Package (My Aged Care) you can utilise your funding to engage Living Bridge Community Care to support you.