E52 - When You Don't Have Future Planning Documents with Social Worker Tamara

28/09/2022 26 min Temporada 1 Episodio 52
E52 - When You Don't Have Future Planning Documents with Social Worker Tamara

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Episode Synopsis

In today's episode of the podcast we're talking all about future planning documents and what happens if you don't have them in place when they're needed. There are a number of Government organisations in place to protect those vulnerable persons who may not have family or decision makers available to assist when they lose capacity themselves. Today we discuss:How 'capacity' is determined?Who can be substitute decision makers?What the Public Trustee, Office of the Public Advocate and Cival & Administrative Tribunals are and when they're utilised?How to avoid getting to a crisis where these services are required?How to access them if they are required?You can find more from the lovely Tamara at www.adelaidehillscc.com :)