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Get started on your Advance Care Plan

Parkinson's Queensland is pleased to partner with Touchstone Life Care, who provide an easy to use online solution for creating legal advance care plans.  Touchstone Life Care provides confidence that your care choices will be heard, and peace of mind that your doctors and loved ones will know your wishes.  Simply enter your details below to access the account sign up page.  It's free to get started!

 

3 simple steps to your Advance Care Plan

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Enter your email

With zero upfront cost you can create your account, with no risk or commitment.

Fill in the questionnaire

If you need more help, you can book with an Advisor at any time.

Complete and share

Your personalised plan can be updated as many times as you like and is instantly accessible, 24/7 by scanning your unique QR code. 

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What is an Advance Care Plan?

You can lose the ability to speak for yourself because of advanced dementia, illness, accident, stroke, or the process of dying itself.

An Advance Care Plan helps to ensure any treatment you receive respects your personal beliefs and wishes in regards to sustaining your life. It consists of two key elements:

  • The Advance Care Directive – the document in which you outline your wishes.
  • Added information including your life values and the names of your substitute decision maker(s).

It is important to take the time to discuss the details of the plan with your family, doctors and any trusted advisors that may be involved in your future care.

For example, you may definitely want pain relief but not wish to be resuscitated, preferring to allow natural death to occur.

You may want the full gamut of treatment in some cases but not if it’s going to leave you in a persistent vegetative state or with significant brain or spinal damage that means your quality of life plummets.

It is also vital that you ensure anyone named as a substitute decision maker understands what is involved and agrees to be one.