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Want to create your Digital Advance Care Plan? click here to get started.
Touchstone Life Care’s advance care plans are easy to complete and share,
and readily accessible through a QR code.
The Touchstone Life Care platform gives you and those you care for a choice to:
create and share an Advance Care Directive at Common Law,
or a State Directive Advance Care Directive
plus
upload extra advance care planning documents such as a video recording or appointment of medical decision maker,
and
automatically share/ update/ notify and discuss with selected contacts ahead of time,
and
have the ACP documents readily available 24/7 in a range of ways including:
QR code
printed form
added to MY Health Record
accessible by providers’ software
on your contacts’ phones and email
emailed as a link to your professional contacts.
We transform the end-of-life experience, by empowering important conversations and subsequent purposeful choices in the end-of-life stage. We help individuals, aged and home care providers, planners and the health system by providing a digital solution that ensures an individual’s wishes for end of life care are captured and communicated.
We strive to positively impact the experience of everyone involved at the end-of-life – the individual, families, care providers and medical teams – by facilitating a guided conversation that digitally captures and shares a person’s choices …
for end-of-life care to those that matter, both legally and emotionally, making those choices easily retrievable anytime, anywhere. We aim to provide freedom by providing certainty that our choices are clear, peace that our loved ones know them and pride to be leaving a legacy of love and meaning and not conflict or trauma.
Everyone deserves quality end of life. Dying is an important final stage of life and worthy of considered choices and planning.
Respect for individuals and their right for self-determination, autonomy and choice
Our platform has been extensively tested across all ages and diverse members of the community for accessibility and the best experience possible.
A deep enduring care for all involved in end-of-life.
Promote the delivery of best Practice Heathcare & alignment with regulatory standards.
A relentless focus on innovation and continued improvement and rigour.
We are the only provider offering such a comprehensive, intuitive, accessible digital advance care plan.
Empowers and educates people to express their choices for advanced medical care.
Makes the process less daunting through an intuitive, guided conversation that captures an individual’s values and decisions in a digital plan.
Automatically shares the plan with trusted contacts like family, doctors or lawyers to ensure a person’s wishes are known.
Specialises in health, aged and palliative care.
Enables people to realise a dignified and authentic end of life experience.
“I began my medical training at Sydney University aged 50. That was 32 years after gaining entry to the degree straight out of school. I had the world’s longest gap year.
In those intervening years, I cared for my husband who died from acute leukaemia aged 24 and had a ‘good death’ despite a horrific illness and treatment regimen because we had had those important conversations about his care and everyone knew what he wanted.
Years later, whilst working as a doctor, I saw unnecessary suffering and conflict in families almost every day, from people not having an Advance Care Plan. I saw patients with advanced dementia and aspiration pneumonias treated with nil by mouth and a nasogastric feeding tube. Then they were put in restraints so they didn’t pull the tube out.
So many people deny themselves a good death by not addressing it soon enough, if at all. They deprive themselves of some of the most loving intimate forgiving and healing conversations. Our medical systems, invasive technologies and some treatment regimens often deny these things to our dying patients too, even if that is not the intention.
My vision is for Touchstone Life Care to be the spark that ignites real change in individuals, doctors and the health system. That includes educating people about advance care planning and encouraging them to create, share and store their own advance care plans.
Advance care planning is about having the most important conversations of your life, and making the most important decisions of your life. It is about finding out what is most important to you and sharing that with those who are most important to you.
I know digital advance care planning will improve people’s deaths. But it will also transform lives and families and save millions of precious health dollars currently being spent on expensive interventions that people may not choose if they took time in advance to think about it.”
Our easy secure questionnaire can take as little as 10 minutes to complete, or as long as you and loved ones need.