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Speaker 1: We know that next week marks the start of the

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Speaker 1: National Advance Care Planning Week, and Palliative Care nt have

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Speaker 1: planned a number of events to educate the community about

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Speaker 1: the importance of having a plan in place. Now joining

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Speaker 1: me on the line to talk more about this is

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Speaker 1: Palliative Care NTS Samantha Harrington. Good morning to you, Samantha.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie, Thanks.

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Speaker 1: So much for your time this morning. Now, Samantha, what

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Speaker 1: is an advanced personal plan?

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Speaker 2: So, an advanced personal plan is a document that where

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Speaker 2: people can write their future wishes for the healthcare that

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Speaker 2: they wish to receive and just as importantly, the care

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Speaker 2: that they might not want to receive, all the treatments

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Speaker 2: that they might and might not want to receive, and

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Speaker 2: enables us to as healthcare professionals, to be able to

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Speaker 2: learn a little bit about those individuals' preferences and their

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Speaker 2: values so that we can direct the care that they

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Speaker 2: receive in accordance with their wishes.

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Speaker 1: That's one of those things, right, I know for my

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Speaker 1: family as well, palliative care, and you know what your

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Speaker 1: wishes might be. It maybe doesn't seem important to some

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Speaker 1: people listening this morning, but it trust me, when you

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Speaker 1: get to that stage, or when someone in your family

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Speaker 1: or a loved one gets to that stage, you actually

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Speaker 1: really do want to know what their wishes are and

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Speaker 1: you want to make sure that you respect them.

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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, and we have. We definitely see firsthand just

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Speaker 2: how it releases relieves the anxiety and the stress for

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Speaker 2: families and for cares and decision makers if they're ever

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Speaker 2: called upon to help make decisions that direct the course

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Speaker 2: of care that their loved ones receive. But I think

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Speaker 2: it's also important to point out as well that people

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Speaker 2: don't have to be necessarily sick or unwell to have

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Speaker 2: an advanced personal plan. You know, in the ideal world,

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Speaker 2: I think everybody who's eighteen and above should have one,

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Speaker 2: because you know, serious illness or injury can affect anybody

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Speaker 2: at any time, and at the bare minimum, I think

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Speaker 2: for individuals to be able to document, you know, who

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Speaker 2: are those people that we go and talk to in

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Speaker 2: the event that you cannot talk for yourself, who would

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Speaker 2: be able to know what your values and your preferences

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Speaker 2: would be so that we can direct the care that

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Speaker 2: is most appropriate for you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so, Samantha, what kind of factors do people

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Speaker 1: need to consider?

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Speaker 2: I think you know, it's it's looking to you, to

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Speaker 2: your own, to your individual self. So the people can

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Speaker 2: document all sorts of things in an advanced care plan.

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Speaker 2: They can be things along the lines of the particular

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Speaker 2: care that they wish to receive that may be in

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Speaker 2: accordance with their their religious preferences or there's their spiritual preferences.

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Speaker 2: It could be things like, you know, the level of

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Speaker 2: care that they want to receive. You know, some people

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Speaker 2: who are you know, who have a lot of presentations

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Speaker 2: to hospital and are becoming more unwell. You know, they

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Speaker 2: may wish to focus on just the care that they

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Speaker 2: receive at home more so than what they receive in

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Speaker 2: hospital and where they're you know, and at a time

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Speaker 2: where they may wish to maybe focus more on a

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Speaker 2: quality of life more so than and extending time by

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Speaker 2: spending more and longer period of time in hospital.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a like, it's such a difficult time

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Speaker 1: for any family, you know, when you do have a

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Speaker 1: loved one that's in palliative care. But I know that

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Speaker 1: you know that the palliative care is staff. I know

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Speaker 1: you're a nurse consultant with palliative care, but you know,

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Speaker 1: you guys do such a tremendous job in making sure

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Speaker 1: that you know that for families, it's it is a

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Speaker 1: really respectful time as well. And that's the whole point

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Speaker 1: of these plans as well, isn't it that you know,

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Speaker 1: for you guys doing your jobs as well, that you

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Speaker 1: cared for.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely and involved the families and the loved ones with

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Speaker 2: the decisions and around the care that's going to be

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Speaker 2: provided as well. It's you know, that's just as important,

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Speaker 2: you know, And I know that we we do talk

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Speaker 2: plans in place sooner than later, because we know that

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Speaker 2: we will make better decisions for ourselves. And we do

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Speaker 2: make better decisions when we're feeling well, not so much

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Speaker 2: when we're in the hospital and we're being treated, you know,

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Speaker 2: for a serious condition or an infection or what have you,

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Speaker 2: when we don't feel great. Yea, you know, the earlier

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Speaker 2: that these plans are done, I know that a lot

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Speaker 2: of people certainly feel empowered to be able to write

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Speaker 2: is a very important document to have it.

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Speaker 1: Certainly is how do people go about creating one of these?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So there is an advanced personal Plan document which

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Speaker 2: can be downloaded from from the Anti Government Attorney General's

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Speaker 2: Office website. But over the course of next week, during

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Speaker 2: National Advanced Care Planning Week, we're going to hold four

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Speaker 2: information hubs across Darwin and Palmerston where people can come

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Speaker 2: along and grab some information about advanced care planning. We'll

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Speaker 2: also have some resources there as well, if so people

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Speaker 2: can pick up the documents themselves as well as some

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Speaker 2: other pieces of information that may help sort of prompt

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Speaker 2: thoughts and ideas about what they might want to document

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Speaker 2: in their advanced personal plan. So yeah, you know, by

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Speaker 2: all means, we would love people to drop in and

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Speaker 2: say hello and receive some information, have a cup of

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Speaker 2: tea and a chat if that's what you would like

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Sam, will people be able to like they're

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Speaker 1: obviously going to be able to have a chat to

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Speaker 1: people like yourself and maybe get a bit more info.

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Speaker 2: Yep, they can. So if I'll just run through just briefly,

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Speaker 2: So Monday at twelve from twelve thirty to two thirty

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Speaker 2: at the Palmerston Library and then on Tuesday will be

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Speaker 2: at the Durat Community Art Space on Impacard Place from

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Speaker 2: ten un till twelve. Thursday morning at the Darren Dera

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Speaker 2: Child and Family Health Center in Malac will be there

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Speaker 2: from eleven until two excellent and Friday morning at Casarina

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Speaker 2: Library from nine point thirty to eleven. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well that is really good to hear, Sam. I know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, you know, my dad was keyd for

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Speaker 1: at the palliative care center there at Royal Darwin Hospital.

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Speaker 1: All of the staff, everybody that works in there does

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Speaker 1: such an incredible job at what is such a difficult

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Speaker 1: time for families. I think it's a really important conversation

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Speaker 1: for people to have. I know that you know that

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Speaker 1: sometimes these conversations can maybe be a bit difficult to have,

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Speaker 1: but I think the point you made as well about

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Speaker 1: having them and having that plan in place, you know,

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Speaker 1: and doing it when you when you're maybe feeling quite

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Speaker 1: well and when you you're not, sort of when you

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Speaker 1: don't have any issues to deal with, is probably a

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Speaker 1: good way of looking at it. M H Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Sam,

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you having a chat with us this

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Speaker 1: morning and uh and we will no doubt talk to

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Speaker 1: you again in the future.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful. Okay, thank you, thank you so much