Advance care planning
What an advance care plan is
An advance care plan helps you plan the health care you want in future and for end of life. This helps if you can no longer communicate your preferences for care. You can update it at any time.
A plan can let your family and health care team know what matters to you. This can include:
- who you’d like to make decisions if you can’t anymore
- your preferred medical treatment and care choices
- organ donation
- where you’d prefer to die, such as at home or in the hospital
- any spiritual or religious plans.
You can share copies of your plan with people you trust to make choices for you. It’s recommended that you upload your advance care plan to My Health Record.
Find out more about advance care planning on the Advance Care Planning Australia website.
Upload your advance care plan
You can upload your advance care plan to My Health Record through myGov. This keeps your wishes safe and can be securely accessed by people you choose.
Follow these steps to add an advance care plan to My Health Record on myGov.
- Sign in to myGov, then select My Health Record
- Select the My Health Record you would like to view
- From the menu, select Documents then Advance Care Planning
- From here you can select Add an Advance Care Planning Document.
If you don’t have a myGov account, find out about creating one and linking My Health Record.
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