An Advanced Care Directive is a legal document which enables you to appoint someone you trust to make medical, health and lifestyles decisions on your behalf when you are unable to do so. An Advanced Care Directive replaces previous documents such as an Enduring Power of Guardianship, Medical Power of Attorney and an Anticipatory Direction with a single Advance Care Directive Form. In this document, you need to select one or more people you trust to become your Substitute Decision-Makers. Your Substitute Decision Maker/s will make decisions about your health and welfare in accordance with your wishes, which we will outline in your Advanced Care Directive, rather than impose their own views and values or subsequently, having
another health professional making them for you.