Information on Advance Care Planning NSW: https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au

Download the FREE NSW Advance Care Directive: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/patients/acp/Publications/acd-form-info-book.pdf

Legal information on Advance Care Directives: https://end-of-life.qut.edu.au/advance-care-directives

Who will speak on your behalf if you can’t, as determined according to the hierarchy within the NSW guardianship ACT (1987): https://ncat.nsw.gov.au/publications-and-resources/fact-sheets/person-responsible-fact-sheet.html

To access aged care services: https://www.myagedcare.gov.au/aged-care-services

FREE financial advice regarding retirement and aged care: https://www.laterlifeadvice.com.au/

Compassionate Communities Australia: https://compassionatecommunities.au/

To access your My Health Record: https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/my-health-record

To register for organ donation and information: https://www.donatelife.gov.au/

NSW Government website providing information regarding scattering ashes: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/environment/factsheets/Pages/cremation-ashes.aspx.

CHEAPEST DIRECT CREMATION we've identified in Northern Sydney is $1,899 through Value Cremations

Includes a respectful, unattended cremation with transport, paperwork, a basic coffin, cremation and return of ashes. Additional fees may apply in some circumstances, for example if you live 70 kms or more from the Northern Suburbs Crematorium in North Ryde or if you would prefer to have the ashes delivered rather than collected.

Information on Palliative Care: https://palliativecare.org.au/

Information for carers: https://www.carergateway.gov.au/

To access Northern Sydney’s Aged Care FREE rapid response/hospital avoidance teams Monday to Friday 8am and 8pm

BRACE- Northern Beaches: 02 9998 6111 or 0491 211 013

AART- Lower North Shore/Ryde/Hunters Hill: 0408 546 907

GRACE- Upper North Shore: 9485 6552 or 0434 183 549

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For those wanting more information on how to donate your body for education and/or scientific research:

Sydney University: https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/industry-and-community/support-us/body-donations.html

University of NSW: https://www.unsw.edu.au/medicine-health/our-schools/biomedical-sciences/partner-with-us/bequeathal-program

University of Technology: https://www.uts.edu.au/about/locations-facilities/surgical-and-anatomical-science-facility/body-donation-program

Macquarie University: https://www.mq.edu.au/faculty-of-medicine-health-and-human-sciences/engage-with-us/body-donations

Sydney Brain bank: https://neura.edu.au/research/scientific-facilities/sydney-brain-bank

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