Links that have helped others:
Watch/Listen
Advance Care Planning videos: https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au/start-planning/talk-starting-the-conversation/talking-with-family-and-loved-ones
Dr Peter Saul’s TED TALK: Let’s talk about dying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkvKGafoyIY
Dr. BJ Miller’s TED TALK: What really matters at the end of life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apbSsILLh28
Kelly and Geriatrician Dr Desmond Graham’s Podcast episode on Advance Care Planning: https://www.healthyageingpodcast.com/podcast
Great films that will make you laugh, reflect and possibly inspire you to start completing your Advance Care Directive:
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/what-we-did-on-our-holiday/953000515996
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/last-cab-to-darwin/2387040323938
Read
Kelly’s responses from Palliative Care Australia discussion starter: https://palliativecare.org.au/story/kelly-arthurs-is-dying-to-talk/
Dr. Ashleigh Witt’s article in The Age: The day I meet you in the emergency department will probably be one of the worst of your life: https://www.theage.com.au/national/the-day-i-meet-you-in-the-emergency-department-will-probably-be-one-of-the-worst-of-your-life-20151105-gkrbm7.html
Information on Advance Care Planning: https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au
NSW preferred Advance Care Directive form: 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
Person responsible 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
Aged care financial advice and the aged care homes map: 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.
Information on Palliative Care: https://palliativecare.org.au/
Information for carers: https://www.carergateway.gov.au/
To access Northern Sydney’s Aged Care 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
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