Planning Ahead for Healthcare Decision-Making Webinar

WHEN

12 November 2026
Thursday
1.00pm - 2.00pm Australia/Sydney

WHERE

Online

COST

Free admission

RSVP

CONTACT

events@uts.edu.au

Presented by the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney in collaboration with Dementia Australia.

This webinar is the third in a series designed to build dementia capability in the legal profession.

Join this free webinar to advance your understanding of:

your understanding of the legal and practical importance of comprehensive advance care planning;
your skills in drafting and advising on effective advance care planning legal documents;
your understanding of the barriers to the uptake of advance care planning and strategies for improvement including strategies for higher quality advance care planning;
your understanding of the medical, ethical and legal perspectives on advance care planning; and
your skills in supporting clients to articulate and document their future preferences.

Earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills.

Register your interest to attend this webinar

Speakers

Dr Greg Parker MBBCh FRACGP FAChPM

Dr Greg Parker is the Director of the Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative; Director of Advance Care Planning Australia; Associate Director of caring@home and Quality Use of Community Palliative Care Medicines; and Director of the Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning and Queensland-wide PallConsult service. He is involved in all aspects of palliative care practice, education, research and service development.
Dr Katrine Del Villar

Dr Katrine Del Villar is a member of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology. She researches legal issues in end of life decision making, including voluntary assisted dying, advance decision-making, consent and capacity.
Lachlan Jarrah

Lachlan Jarrah is a dementia advocate with Dementia Australia. He cared for his mother throughout her experience with Huntington’s disease and dementia, advocating for her needs and wellbeing. He was also responsible for making medical decisions on her behalf as her condition progressed.
Dr Nola Ries (Chair)

Dr Nola Ries is an experienced legal and social science researcher with expertise in law, health and ageing; legal aspects of health system reform; and the ethical and legal governance of health research. She is a co-founder of the Dementia Law Network, Co-Theme Leader (Law, Ethics & Regulation) for the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC), member of the UTS Law, Health, Justice Research Group and a member of the UTS Medical Research Ethics Committee.

Chair

The webinars will be chaired by Dr Nola Ries, Professor, UTS Faculty of Law and Co Lead, Law, Regulation & Ethics Theme for the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (UARC) and co-founder of the Dementia Law Network.

2026 Webinar series

Why does dementia capability matter for the legal profession?

As the Australian population ages and more people are living with dementia, legal professionals have a pivotal role in advising clients on planning for the future in a way that promotes autonomy and safeguards rights.

Having the knowledge and skills needed to work effectively with clients living with, or at risk for, dementia, are important professional attributes – and an expanding area of specialist expertise.

Each webinar in this series features expert legal and health insights, alongside perspectives from people living with dementia or with experience supporting a person with dementia. You will gain a real-world understanding of the issues and take away practical strategies and resources to implement in your practice.

The webinar series is applicable to practitioners from all states and territories.

Recordings of the webinars are not currently available.

Future webinars

The fourth webinar in the series is on Enduring Powers of Attorney and Financial Abuse and is scheduled for 1pm on 2 December 2026.

Additional webinars on the topics covered in the 2026 webinar series will be held in February and March 2027. These topics include:

Dementia: Facts and Foundations
Capacity and Supported Decision-Making
Planning Ahead for Healthcare Decision-Making
Enduring Powers of Attorney and Financial Abuse

Earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills for each webinar you attend.

Opportunity to contribute to research improving dementia-capability

The Dementia-Capability for Lawyers webinar series includes an opportunity to be part of UTS research project HE-2026-0856. Participation is entirely optional and attendees may attend the webinars without taking part in the research.

Find out more about how you can be involved.