Planning ahead
Getting your affairs in order — will, EPOA, ACD, wishes.
Printable checklists.
For Australia. Download a PDF to print, or the Word doc if you want to edit. Pen-and-paper friendly — designed for older eyes.
Planning ahead
Get your affairs in order.
Caring for someone
When you’re looking after someone else.
When someone is terminal
Practical and emotional steps when time is short.
Caring for someone with dementia
The legal and practical steps, stage by stage.
Choosing & paying for aged care
Comparing facilities, costs, RADs, and means testing.
Carer wellbeing & respite
Looking after yourself when you’re looking after someone else.
Questions for the care team
Prompts to take to appointments with doctors, nurses, and aged-care staff.
Hospital bag checklist
What to pack for a planned or unplanned hospital admission.
After someone dies
Step by step, in order.
When someone dies (expected)
Step-by-step for an expected death — palliative, hospice, or known illness.
When someone dies (unexpected)
Sudden death, accident, or coronial process — what to do first.
Practical tasks after a death
The full to-do list — documents, government, money, accounts.
Funeral planning
Decisions, costs, and what to ask when choosing a funeral director.
Executor’s checklist
For executors of a will — probate, debts, distributions, tax.
General information only — written for Australia. Some tasks vary by region and circumstance. Read the full disclaimer.