Planning Ahead for Healthcare Decision-Making Webinar
Presented by UTS Law in collaboration with Dementia Australia.
This webinar is the third in a series designed to build dementia capability in the legal profession. Join this webinar to advance:
your understanding of the legal and practical importance of comprehensive advance care planning;
your skills in drafting and advising on effective advance care planning legal documents;
your understanding of the barriers to the uptake of advance care planning and strategies for improvement including strategies for higher quality advance care planning;
your understanding of the medical, ethical and legal perspectives on advance care planning; and
your skills in supporting clients to articulate and document their future preferences.
Earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills.
2026 Webinar Series
Why does dementia capability matter for the legal profession?
As the Australian population ages and more people are living with dementia, legal professionals have a pivotal role in advising clients on planning for the future in a way that promotes autonomy and safeguards rights.
Having the knowledge and skills needed to work effectively with clients living with, or at risk for, dementia, are important professional attributes – and an expanding area of specialist expertise.
Each webinar in this series features expert legal and health insights, alongside perspectives from people living with dementia or with experience supporting a person with dementia. You will gain a real-world understanding of the issues and take away practical strategies and resources to implement in your practice.
The webinar series is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories.
Recordings of the webinars are not currently available.
Future webinars
The fourth webinar in the series is on Enduring Powers of Attorney and Financial Abuse and is scheduled for 1pm on 2 December 2026.
Additional webinars on the topics covered in the 2026 webinar series will be held in February and March 2027. These topics include:
Dementia: Facts and Foundations
Capacity and Supported Decision-Making
Planning Ahead for Healthcare Decision-Making
Enduring Powers of Attorney and Financial Abuse
Earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills for each webinar you attend.
Speakers
Dr Greg Parker MBBCh FRACGP FAChPM
Dr Greg Parker is the Director of the Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative, Director Advance Care Planning Australia, A/Director caring@home and Quality Use of Community Palliative Care Medicines, Director of the Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning and Queensland-wide PallConsult service, He is also the Director Statewide Palliative Care Digital Health Support Unit, Director of Metro South Health Advance Care Planning Service and Deputy-Director of the Metro South Palliative Care Service, Metro South Health. Greg is involved in all aspects of palliative care practice, education, research and service development. Greg is a senior lecturer with Griffith University and the University of Queensland and an advanced training supervisor with the Royal Australian College of Physicians. He is committed to effective, comprehensive and equitable palliative care service delivery focussed on whole person care.
Dr Katrine Del Villar
Dr Katrine Del Villar is a member of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology. She researches legal issues in end of life decision making, including voluntary assisted dying, advance decision-making, consent and capacity. She is an investigator on the Commonwealth government-funded End-of-Life Law for Clinicians project (ELLC), which provides comprehensive end-of-life legal training for health professionals and aged care practitioners.
Lachlan Jarrah
Lachlan is a Dementia Advocate with Dementia Australia. He cared for his mother throughout her experience with Huntington’s disease and dementia, advocating for her needs and wellbeing. He was also responsible for making medical decisions on her behalf as her condition progressed.
Dr Nola Ries (Chair)
Dr Nola Ries is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is an experienced legal and social science researcher with expertise in: law, health and ageing; legal aspects of health system reform; and the ethical and legal governance of health research. Nola is a co-founder of the Dementia Law Network, Co-Theme Leader (Law, Ethics & Regulation) for the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC), member of the UTS Law, Health, Justice Research Group and a member of the UTS Medical Research Ethics Committee. Professor Ries has a strong focus on applied research, community engagement and interprofessional collaboration between legal and health sectors. She leads a program of research on: legal issues for people living with dementia, their carers and family; dementia capability for the legal profession; and legal and policy frameworks for a dementia-inclusive society. Nola has expertise in qualitative research with professional and consumer participants. She has over 100 publications, research reports and related outputs, including more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 25 book chapters. Nola also teaches Research Methodology, Elder Law and Law & Medicine. Formerly a solicitor and barrister in British Columbia, Canada, Nola is also admitted as a solicitor in NSW.
Opportunity to contribute to research improving dementia-capability
The Dementia-Capability for lawyers webinar series includes an opportunity to be part of UTS research project HE-2026-0856. Participation is entirely optional and attendees may attend the webinars without taking part in the research.
A copy of the Participant Information Sheet for this project is available at https://www.uts.edu.au/events/capacity-and-supported-decision-making-webinar/contentassets/webinar-participant-information-sheet.pdf
Please follow this link for further information.
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