ADVANCE HEALTH DIRECTIVE
An Advance Health Directive is a document that provides you with instructions about your future health care. It comes into operation when a person loses the competency to make health care decisions for themselves and allows their spouse, carer, friend or a member of their family to make health care decisions according to your wishes.
If you would like more information on Advance Health Directives click on the following links.
This factsheet talks about Advance Health Care Directives. It looks at who can make one and how they work. It also examines when the need to make an Advance Health Care Directive arises.
Legal issues and estate planning: Advance Health Directives
This link gives a brief description of what an Advance Health Directive is and does.
What if I become incapable? Advanced Health directive
This link gives information on how to prepare an Advance Health Directive. It explains the importance of making your instructions, about future health care, known to those around you, and gives some useful tips on what would happen if you had not prepared an Advance Health Directive.
Form 4: Advance Health Directive
An Advance Health Directive is a document that states your wishes about future health care.
Every person has a right to make their own health care decisions. However, when a person suffers from a severe illness, is unconscious or otherwise unable to communicate their wishes because of an intellectual disability, their spouse, carer, friend or family member may have to make health care decisions on their behalf.
By completing this Advance Health Directive, you can make your wishes known about future health care decisions that may be made for you should you lose the competency to make them yourself.
