Advance care planning workshops
We all want to have a say in what happens in the last part of our lives.
Planning for your future care, lifestyle, health and finances helps you work out what is important to you. It also makes things easier for your loved ones by guiding their future decision making.
This process – called advance care planning – can include decisions about:
- medical treatments you do or don’t want in the future
- if you want to approve someone else to make decisions about your
- property and finances
- health and wellbeing
- if you want to be an organ or tissue donor.
Read more about advance care planning (external site).
It’s important to start advance care planning early in life when you can speak and decide for yourself. You can also review and alter your choices and documents as your personal situation, health or lifestyle change.
Attend our free workshops
Throughout 2026, the Older Adult Health Hub and Palliative Care Western Australia are offering following free advance care planning workshops:
- Introduction to advance care planning – what is it, how to get started, and how to talk with family, loved ones and healthcare providers about your wishes
- Advance health directive document support – how to prepare an advance health directive (a legal document that records your decisions about future medical treatment you do or do not want to receive).
The workshops run from 10am to 12pm.
You may choose to attend one or both workshops. We recommend you attend the ‘Introduction to advanced care planning’ first, however it is not essential.
2026 workshop dates
| Workshop 1 Introduction to advanced care planning |
Workshop 2 Advance health directive document support |
|---|---|
| Tuesday 7 July 2026 | Tuesday 21 July 2026 |
| Tuesday 11 August 2026 | Tuesday 25 August 2026 |
| Tuesday 8 September 2026 | Tuesday 22 September 2026 |
| Tuesday 6 October 2026 | Tuesday 20 October 2026 |
| Tuesday 10 November 2026 | Tuesday 24 November 2026 |
| Tuesday 01 December 2026 | Tuesday 15 December 2026 |
How to register
Registration is essential as each workshop is limited to 20 people – register online now (external site).
If your registration is accepted, you will receive an email one week before the workshop confirming the time and location .
If the workshop is fully booked, you will be notified by email and provided with alternative workshop dates.
More information
For information on our workshops, please email our Older Adult Health Hub.
For information on advance care planning, visit Palliative Care WA (external site) or Healthy WA (external site)
Location
Older Adult Health Hub
Level 1 – Boodja Group Room
Cockburn Integrated Health and Community Facility
11 Wentworth Parade, Success
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