Advance Care and Life Planning Services

Living Bridge Community Care provide high quality, holistic person centred services.

Advance Care Planning Packages

  • Advance Health Directive

  • Informed guidance to understand and document future health care, medical care and End-of-Life care choices

  • Support to have a doctor review and sign the AHD, including making an appointment and transport to a doctors’ surgery if required

  • Witness and signature by a JP Qualified

  • Upload of AHD to MyGov-My Health record, Queensland Health electronic hospital record and QAS (Queensland Ambulance Service) via The State Office of Advance Care Planning

  • An Advance Health Directive is included in Qld legislation and is a legal document offering a person an increased sense of control over their health care and/or end of life care

  • Statement of Choices

  • Support to complete a values-based document that records a person’s wishes and choices for health care and end of life care into the future. Although the Statement of Choices is not included in Qld Legislation, the content can still have a guiding effect by assisting substitute decision makers and clinicians if a person is unable to communicate their wishes

  •  Form A is used for persons with cognitive capacity

  • Form B is used for persons who have lost cognitive capacity to make health care and end of life care decisions

     Life Planning Services

  • EPOA - Enduring Power of Attorney

  • Allows a person to appoint someone they trust (an Attorney) to make decisions for either health or financial matters or both

  • Wills

  • Informed guidance to document and have witnessed a Last Will and Testament

  • Government Forms and Claims

  • Support to complete and lodge paperwork to Government agencies

  • Support to complete and lodge forms and claims such as taxi vouchers and travel subsidy forms

  • Personal Administration

  • Support to pay bills and to attend to emails and correspondence

  • Hoarding and Squalor 

  • Including support for downsizing and creative de cluttering

  • End of Life Care Support

  • For people with no one to give support at end of life – End of Life Care Doula Support ensuring that no one dies alone

  • Social Worker Services

  • Living Bridge Community Care provide Social Worker Services to facilitate Advance Care Planning and Life Planning Services

  • Telephone and On-line consolations are also available.

The above supports may be utilised as a single service or part of an

ongoing services package tailored to individual need.

Did you know? 

that if you have a Home Care Package (My Aged Care)

you can utilise your funding to engage Living Bridge Community Care to support you?

- Contact us to find out how -

Holistic Care for Life - Living and Dying Well