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Like Changes and taxes, there will always be paperwork.
Like Changes and taxes, there will always be paperwork.
After Pre plan organisations.pdfPlanning on how to live well, at home.
Planning on how to live well, at home.
This document has a list of organisations people can explore to plan ahead or consider what they might need in the future. It is not all of them, but it is a good start.
It includes links to
Sureplan Funeral Bonds,
Staying Well at Home - organisations that support, care for the help cope with progressive changes.
Greif Support pages
Dementia,
Centrelink Navigator
Wills and Estates
Caxton - Free legal services
Everlight Stories.
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a voluntary planning process for future health care relevant to all adults regardless of their health or age. Ideally, ACP involves completing a recognised ACP document.
Resources have been developed to normalise early conversations about the end of life rather than waiting until more time-critical or medical-focused discussions are needed.
These resources can be found in the following links:
You can access the Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning (ACP) and post a free Advance Care Planning Information Pack to you using the online order form.
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Alternatively, instantly download the ACP Information Pack for Individuals (PDF, 16 MB) .
The information pack includes:
My Care, My Choices brochure
Statement of Choices Form (A and B)
Tips for completing Form A
Tips for completing Form B
Office of ACP information postcard
Office of Public Guardian fact sheets about Enduring Power of Attorney, Advance Health Directives and Statutory Health Attorney.
Let's Talk about Dying
Let's Talk about Dying
Peter Saul TEDxNewy November 2011
This TED talk opens the very real discussion and value of Advanced Care Planning.
We can't control if we'll die, but we can "occupy death," in the words of Peter Saul, an emergency doctor. He asks us to think about the end of our lives and to question the modern model of slow, intubated death in the hospital. Two big questions can help you start this tough conversation.
Statement of Choices
Statement of Choices
The Statement of Choices is a values-based document that records your wishes and preferences for health care. Its purpose is to guide or inform the people who may need to make health care decisions for you if you cannot make those decisions for yourself. It helps decision-makers consider what decisions they might have made in the circumstances if they could do so.
It is not a legally binding document. It does not provide consent to or refusal of treatment.
Advanced Health (Care) Directive
Advanced Health (Care) Directive
An advance health directive allows you to give directions about your future healthcare. You can also use this form to appoint an attorney(s) for health matters.
At some point in the future, you may be unable to decide about your health care, even temporarily. This might be due to an accident, dementia, a stroke or a mental illness.
An advance health directive allows you to:
give directions about your future health care
make your wishes known and give health professionals direction about the treatment you want
appoint someone you trust (an attorney) to make decisions about health care on your behalf.
To access the Advanced Health Directive
Power of Attorney Forms
Power of Attorney Forms
Access Queensland Power of Attorney Forms
Use the new enduring power of attorney (short) form and the enduring power of attorney (long) form after reading the enduring power of attorney explanatory guide and the new advance health directive form and the advance health directive explanatory guide from now on.
We have also answered frequently asked questions about the new enduring power of attorney and advance health directives.
An enduring power of attorney allows you to appoint someone you trust to make decisions for you and continues if you lose the capacity to make decisions yourself.
A general power of attorney allows you to appoint someone you trust to make financial decisions for you while you can make those decisions but it ends when you lose the capacity to make those decisions (unless it is a power of attorney given as security).
An advance health directive allows you to give directions about your future healthcare. You can also use this form to appoint an attorney(s) for health matters.
Checklists
Checklists
Before transfer Checklist.pdfThings to be completed before the deceased is moved to after-life care.
Things to be completed before the deceased is moved to after-life care.
This form is prepared by the Authorities - The Paramedics, Police or Registered nurse.
Completing the documents and body preparations required before moving the deceased from their final space is essential. For instance, there are legal implications if the deceased is transported before the LX form is completed.
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Essential Forms to be completed:
Life Extinct (LX Form) - enables the body to be moved and cared for until the Cause of Death Form 9 certificate is issued. To assist the funeral provider, please ensure the doctor who is issuing the Form 9 is noted on this form with their contact details.
Property Receipt - Documentation signed by transfer staff and nursing home staff noting any items on the deceased being transported with them.
Prepare the deceased body for transport to the after-life-care facility.
Some facilities wash their bodies and dress them in the nominated clothes.
The family may wish to stay with their loved one or spend some time with them before the body is transferred.
Contact the nominated Funeral Home, who will coordinate the transfer of your loved one's body to the mortuary facilities..
Relevant details of the deceased to help the funeral home organise the transfer of your loved one:
Person's full name, details of their date of birth and death.
Approximate weight and height (to ensure the correct equipment and staff are allocated for the transfer.
If the deceased is at risk of contamination or has internal medical instruments, such as a pacemaker, etc.,
What to consider when planning a funeral.
What to consider when planning a funeral.
There are MANY CHOICES available to you when arranging a funeral. This funeral checklist discusses some of them in detail.
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Whether it will be a burial or cremation
Whether you want a basic funeral or more elaborate service
The choice of service (private or public and single or double service)
Whether the funeral will be a religious or non-religious ceremony
The choice of clergy or celebrant
Where the funeral will take place (church, cremation chapel, cemetery chapel, graveside, elsewhere)
Convenient day, date and time for the service
The choice of coffin or casket
Writing and placing an obituary
Photo presentation
Preparing a eulogy
Viewing the deceased
Who will act as pallbearers
The choice of music or poetry for the service
Organising flowers or donations
Service stationery
Catering
The following are required forms to document the after care tasks and a brief description of their use.
These forms are a guide only and will differ between locations and organisations. They are not all the forms required for a funeral arrangement, but they are some of the main ones required. Depending on your State, your nominated funeral director may give you these or similar forms to collect relevant information and authority to complete the stated task.
Authority to Release Deceased Body
Authority to Release Deceased Body
Reason for use: The Authority to Release form is designed to give executors or the senior next of kin the ability to authorise a funeral home or deceased transport company permission to collect their loved one from a medical facility.
Reason for use: The Authority to Release form is designed to give executors or the senior next of kin the ability to authorise a funeral home or deceased transport company permission to collect their loved one from a medical facility.
Completed by: The funeral director will complete this form with the family. If the family are not available to meet prior to the time the pick-up needs to be done, a Justice of the Peace can sign this form on their behalf to authorise the pickup.
Completed by: The funeral director will complete this form with the family. If the family are not available to meet prior to the time the pick-up needs to be done, a Justice of the Peace can sign this form on their behalf to authorise the pickup.
Sent to: This form is handed over at the time of pickup to the staff at the medical facility that is holding the deceased.
Sent to: This form is handed over at the time of pickup to the staff at the medical facility that is holding the deceased.
Form 1 - Application for Cremation.pdfForm 4 - Cremation (independant Doctor).pdfForm 1 Application for Permission to Cremate
Form 1 Application for Permission to Cremate
Reason for use: When cremation is requested, funeral homes are required, by law, to engage an independent doctor to check the deceased and their paperwork before cremation occurs. Often referred to as the GMO or Medical practitioner authorisation – this is another certification unique to cremations (not needed for burials) that requires another doctor, not their regular GP, to certify the identification of the deceased. To make sure we are taking the right person to the crematorium and that they are suitable for cremation.
Reason for use: When cremation is requested, funeral homes are required, by law, to engage an independent doctor to check the deceased and their paperwork before cremation occurs. Often referred to as the GMO or Medical practitioner authorisation – this is another certification unique to cremations (not needed for burials) that requires another doctor, not their regular GP, to certify the identification of the deceased. To make sure we are taking the right person to the crematorium and that they are suitable for cremation.
Completed by: The funeral director will complete this form with the family or can be authorised to complete it on their behalf.
Completed by: The funeral director will complete this form with the family or can be authorised to complete it on their behalf.
Sent to: The mortuary first, which is given to the Independent Doctor to review, and after the GMO is complete, this form is given to the Crematorium.
Sent to: The mortuary first, which is given to the Independent Doctor to review, and after the GMO is complete, this form is given to the Crematorium.
Form 4, Permission to Cremate
Form 4, Permission to Cremate
Reason for use: As with Form 1 above, this is the second form required for the GMO; or Medical practitioner authorisation, which the doctor completes on examination
Reason for use: As with Form 1 above, this is the second form required for the GMO; or Medical practitioner authorisation, which the doctor completes on examination
Completed by: The independent doctor will complete this form, but generally, it is pre-filled with the deceased's details prior to the doctor attending.
Completed by: The independent doctor will complete this form, but generally, it is pre-filled with the deceased's details prior to the doctor attending.
Sent to: After the GMO is complete, this form will be given to the crematorium.
Sent to: After the GMO is complete, this form will be given to the crematorium.
Form 8 - Death Certificate Registration.pdfDeath Registration
Death Registration
Reason for use: Registering a death requires certain information to be provided to populate the certificate details and record the history of the deceased. This form allows for all the information needed to complete the registration with Births, Deaths and Marriages also known as BDM.
Reason for use: Registering a death requires certain information to be provided to populate the certificate details and record the history of the deceased. This form allows for all the information needed to complete the registration with Births, Deaths and Marriages also known as BDM.
Completed by: The funeral director will complete this form with the family or can be authorised to complete it on their behalf, as it can be done over the phone or via email if required.
Completed by: The funeral director will complete this form with the family or can be authorised to complete it on their behalf, as it can be done over the phone or via email if required.
Sent to: This form is kept by the funeral home to register the death with BDM for them to create the certificate.
Sent to: This form is kept by the funeral home to register the death with BDM for them to create the certificate.
Application for burial - MBRC.pdfApplication for Burial
Application for Burial
Reason for use: In order to conduct a burial, we must apply for this service. Cemeteries have different forms depending on their location, so the correct form is required for the cemetery in which the burial is to take place. This form includes the information for cemetery staff to follow and allows for the burial to be booked.
Reason for use: In order to conduct a burial, we must apply for this service. Cemeteries have different forms depending on their location, so the correct form is required for the cemetery in which the burial is to take place. This form includes the information for cemetery staff to follow and allows for the burial to be booked.
Completed by: The funeral director will complete this form with the family or can be authorised to complete it on their behalf.
Completed by: The funeral director will complete this form with the family or can be authorised to complete it on their behalf.
Sent to: The cemetery staff with which the burial is to take place will require this form to arrange the time and date for burial. Other cemeteries use digital or online forms, so this process will vary depending on location.
Sent to: The cemetery staff with which the burial is to take place will require this form to arrange the time and date for burial. Other cemeteries use digital or online forms, so this process will vary depending on location.
Ashes Instructions
Ashes Instructions
Reason for use: In order to ensure a family's wishes are recorded, this form is used to document the family's requirements, including the memorialisation requirements and authorising the funeral home or other persons to collect ashes on behalf of the applicant.
Completed by: The funeral director will complete this form with the family and require the family to sign it. Email permission is possible, but it ideally has the original signature.
Sent to: The crematorium handling the ashes will require this form as instructions from the applicant regarding how the ashes are to be handled. If no ashes instruction form is provided, the crematorium can only release the ashes to the applicant, and no one else until this or a similar form is provided.
cor-f-r14.pdfRequest for Order Release of Body for Burial
Request for Order Release of Body for Burial
Reason for use: In the event the deceased is being held by the Coroners a request for Form 14 is required. This form is filled in with details of the request to be able to pick up a deceased from the coroners.
Reason for use: In the event the deceased is being held by the Coroners a request for Form 14 is required. This form is filled in with details of the request to be able to pick up a deceased from the coroners.
Completed by: The funeral director will complete this form.
Completed by: The funeral director will complete this form.
Sent to: The Coroners are to be sent this form to request the funeral provider collect the deceased.
Sent to: The Coroners are to be sent this form to request the funeral provider collect the deceased.
m-cor-f-14-221007.pdfOrder Release of Body for Burial
Order Release of Body for Burial
Reason for use: This is the Form 14 provided by the coroners on a successful request for release of the body to the funeral home.
Reason for use: This is the Form 14 provided by the coroners on a successful request for release of the body to the funeral home.
Completed by: The coroners' staff will complete this form, which will be signed and stamped with the official seal.
Completed by: The coroners' staff will complete this form, which will be signed and stamped with the official seal.
Sent to: The mortuary and crematorium will require this form as this form essentially is used instead of the Form 1 & Form 4 for GMO but will also be accompanied by the Form 3.
Sent to: The mortuary and crematorium will require this form as this form essentially is used instead of the Form 1 & Form 4 for GMO but will also be accompanied by the Form 3.
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