Tasmania has a formal process for appointing someone called an Enduring Guardian, with the authority to make health and lifestyle decisions for another person. More information is available from the Guardianship and Administration Board. Every adult who has the capacity to make their own decisions has the right to agree to or refuse medical treatment, and the ACD is a way of. This person is known as a ‘Person Responsible’. In Tasmania , you can also appoint an Enduring Guardian.

You need to have forms from the Guardianship and Administration Board. What is advance care directive? Do common law advance care directives have to be verbal?
The law is different in each jurisdiction. Advance care planning respects the right of an individual to decide how decisions are made about their care. An advance care directive is an important part of your end-of-life care.
The directive can contain all your needs, values and preferences for your future care and details of a substitute decision-maker. You also have the right to name someone else to make health care decisions for you. This form lets you do either or both of these things.
It must be signed by a witness who is over 1 unrelated to the person making the direction and is not a known beneficiary in that person’s will. Any existing advance care directives completed on previous versions of the ACD form will continue to be valid and followed. (more…)