Optimal Aging and Dying - the Choice is Yours

Name: Optimal Aging and Dying - the Choice is Yours
Start: 2025-09-06T09:00:00+1000
End: 2025-09-06T12:30:00+1000
Location: Cavanbah Hall

Sat, 6 Sep, 9am - 12:30pm AEST

Cavanbah Hall

Coffs Harbour NSW, Australia

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ChiLL - Choices in Later Life

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An event not to be missed. You will hear from expert speakers in their fields, Dr Linda Swan former GP & current CEO of https://www.gogentleaustralia.org.au/ and Dr John Ward, Geriatrician, co founder & Vice-President Hunter Aging Alliance, 2024 NSW Senior of the Year.

They will explore the ethical and practical difficulties of incorporating a request for VAD into an Advanced Care Plan, especially the issues of capacity, including for those with Dementia. You will hear how VAD fits with other options for end-of-life care, especially Palliative Care.

You will also hear personal accounts from relatives of local persons who have used VAD both successfully and unsuccessfully and there will be plenty of time for Q & A.

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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ChiLL provides continuing and varied educational forums that explore options around our last stage of life, our demise. We invite participants to explore options when planning for dying and death. We believe in alleviating unnecessary distress for the dying and extra burdens for the bereaved; we aim to confront fear & ignorance with information and discussion. We go beyond familiar to inspire death literacy in Seniors, their families and Carers, but open to all.

We inform the community about:

• Enduring Power of Attorney and Enduring Guardianship

• Advanced Care Planning and How to Assemble an Advanced Care Plan

• How and where to lodge your Advanced Care Plan

• Preparing the Family and Other Carers

• To Do List in preparation for Loss of Capacity or Dying

• Palliative Care – What it is and isn’t and how to access it

• What happens when someone is dying

• Voluntary Assisted Dying – What it is and isn’t and how to access it

• Death Doula services including Local Resources

• Organ Donation

• Funeral Planning and How to Celebrate a Life

• Getting on with your life after the Death of a Partner

• Bereavement and Bereavement Resources

The emphasis throughout is about how to access the resources, services and people that assist in these tasks.

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Sat, 6 Sep, 9am - 12:30pm AEST

Cavanbah Hall

Coffs Harbour NSW, Australia

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