Resources

The End of Life Law Toolkit provides practical information about the law at end of life for the aged care sector. Resources include factsheets, mythbusters and case studies. Topics include:

• Overview of End of Life Law in Australia
• Capacity and Consent to Medical Treatment
• Advance Care Directives
• Substitute Decision-Making
• Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment
• Legal Protection for Administering Pain and Symptom Relief
• Futile or Non-Beneficial Treatment
• Emergency Medical Treatment
• Managing Disputes about Medical Treatment Decision-Making
• Voluntary Assisted Dying

The Advance Care Planning Australia (ACPA) website offers a range of information on advance care planning and dementia:

• Advance care planning and dementia
• Advance care planning and dementia - Frequently asked questions (230kb pdf)
• Making decisions for someone else
• Being a substitute decision-maker
• ACPA and Dementia Australia Position Statement: Advance Care Directives for people with dementia.

The Cognitive Decline and Partnership Centre developed a three part Supported Decision-Making Webinar Series that explains the basic principles of supported decision-making and their application. Each webinar is approximately one hour in length.

• Webinar 1 – Human rights, dementia and supported decision-making
• Webinar 2 – Supporting decision-making for people living with dementia
• Webinar 3 – Supported decision-making for aged care providers.

Supporting documents to these webinars include:

• Supported Decision Making in Aged Care- A Policy Development document for Aged Care Providers in Australia (1.4MB pdf)
• Supporting Decision-Making: A guide for people living with dementia, family members and carers (2MB pdf).

Supported Decision-Making Help Sheets:

• Supported decision-making helpsheet (English - 553kb pdf)
• Supported decision-making helpsheet (Simplified Chinese - 366kb pdf)
• Supported decision-making helpsheet (Greek - 323kb pdf)
• Supported decision-making helpsheet (Italian - 321kb pdf)