Your health, your choice

What is different about the new SA Advance Care Directive?   Tuesday 16 July 2013

Podcast available HERE (mp3 format 26MB)

This forum, will explain the new South Australian Advance Care Directives Act, why we need it, when and how it will be implemented, and how you can help design the community awareness campaign for our new Advance Care Directive.

Advance Care Directives (ACDs) enable us to record in advance our values and our wishes about where and how we want to live and to be cared for, what levels of functional ability would be intolerable to us and what health care or medical treatment we do or do not want.  They also allow us to choose a trusted decision-maker in case we are, at any time, unable to make our decisions or choices known personally, for example if we need surgery, have a mental illness, or suffer a serious injury or a terminal illness.

The Advance Care Directives Act 2013 can be accessed here. 

Facilitator: Dr Bernadette Richards PhD LLB(Hons) BA DipEd teaches health law and ethics at University of Adelaide and is a Director on the Board of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law and Convenor of its Adelaide Chapter.

Panel:

• Jean Murray DrPH MHSM BSc is an Adjunct Academic at Flinders University, Secretary of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law and was the architect of Australia's National Advance Care Directives Framework - powerpoint presentation (pdf format)
• Sandra Bradley RN FRCNA Master of Research is a PhD Candidate with CareSearch focusing on the use of the internet to facilitate ACD completions by South Australian Baby Boomers - powerpoint presentation (pdf format)
• Kathy Williams BBSc Senior Policy Officer, Bioethics, with SA Health led the development of the new Advance Care Directives Act, supported the Minister through the Parliamentary process and is leading the implementation work - powerpoint presentation (pdf format)
• Christopher Boundy BA LLB is a legal practitioner and the manager of the legal advisory services and community legal education programs which are provided by the Legal Services Commission of South Australia.

Co-presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the SA Chapter of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law

While the views presented by speakers within the Hawke Centre public program are their own and are not necessarily those of either the University of South Australia or The Hawke Centre, they are presented in the interest of open debate and discussion in the community and reflect our themes of: strengthening our democracy - valuing our diversity - and building our future.

The copying and reproduction of any transcripts within the Hawke Centre public program is strictly forbidden without prior arrangements.