Topic
End of life law and decision-making in aged care.
Content
End of Life Law for Clinicians offers 13 modules for aged care workers:
- The role of law.
- Capacity and consent to medical treatment.
- Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment.
- Advance care planning and advance care directives.
- Substitute decision-making for medical treatment.
- Legal protection for administering pain and symptom relief.
- [not available in the Aged Care audience]
- Futile or non-beneficial treatment.
- Urgent treatment for adults.
- Managing conflict.
- Voluntary assisted dying.
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and end of life law.
- Inclusive and of life decision-making for diverse populations.
- Older people and end of life law.
Depth
Intermediate to advanced.
Target audience
Aged care workforce.
Time to complete
30-90 minutes per module.
Authors
Administered by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), in partnership with the Faculty of Health, QUT.
Comments
This is an RACGP-approved CPD activity under the RACGP CPD Program (total of 11 CPD hours). This event has been accredited in the 2023–2025 ACRRM PD Program for 8 Educational Activity Hours and 3 Performance Review Hours.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this training contains content of a sensitive nature. No images, voices or names have been used of people who have passed away.
Registration required
A palliative Care Education and Training Collaborative account is required.
Payment required
No.
Student support
No.
Certificate
Yes. Eligible for CPD (continuing professional development) credit.
Country of origin
Australia.
Web Address
https://palliativecareeducation.com.au/course/index.php?categoryid=58
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