One of the lessons we have gleaned in our work helping people with their estate planning is the stories of regret and remorse as they relate to the guilt of not knowing what their loved one’s dying wishes were – be it about life support, palliative care, burial/cremation preferences, resuscitation and on it goes.

When we came across the Advance Care Planning program we knew that it would be an important program to shine a light on and we were grateful to have the wonderful Dr Sonia Fullerton, Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and an advocate for the program on the show.

Host: Anna Hacker

• Guest: Dr Sonia Fullerton, is Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, a consultant in palliative medicine and an ambassador for Advance Care Planning Australia. Her interests include patient centred decision making, end of life care plans, social media in health and health IT.
  
• Useful links:
  Advance Care Planning Australia.
  Palliative Care Pain and Palliative Care Research
  Advance Care Planning (ACP) - YouTube
  
• Disclosure – General advice for listeners. Please be aware that the information in this podcast has been prepared without considering the objectives, financial situation, or needs of any individual and is general in nature. If you do wish to act on the information, before doing so you should consider its appropriateness to your circumstances and obtain specific legal and financial advice. As we suggest in the podcast we would always recommend obtaining financial and legal advice relevant to your circumstances before making any decisions and also in line with this suggest getting specialist advice from a tax professional to confirm the impact of this financial advice on your overall tax position.