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Dementia Planning. Make Your Wishes Known While You Can.

Planning for dementia starts with the decisions that matter most. Record your future care wishes, advance care directives, legal documents and trusted decision-makers. Preserve your stories and give loved ones clear guidance as your needs change.

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YOUR DEMENTIA PLANNING VAULT

Your Wishes. Your Voice. Your Future.

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Plan early. Keep your choices clear.

Planning Ahead

Dementia Planning Checklist for Care Wishes, Identity and Family Decisions

For people searching for dementia planning, advance care planning for dementia or what to organise after a dementia diagnosis, this pathway records care preferences, decision-makers, routines, life story, estate documents and the details that keep identity visible.

Planning Ahead

Plan Early for Dementia

Dementia

Dementia planning is strongest while you can still shape it yourself. Record values, care wishes, decision-makers, documents and the life story that keeps identity visible.

  • Record Wishes While Voice Is Clear

  • Preserve Routines and Identity

  • Guide Future Family Decisions

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Two private Premium Lifetime Vaults for any two family members—independently owned and controlled, with shared Rooms for the stories, memories and important information that belong together as a lasting family legacy.

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DEMENTIA PLANNING WHILE YOUR VOICE CAN LEAD

What Should a Dementia Plan Include? Care Wishes, Identity & Documents

Your storyYour wishesYour essentials

Your identity matters. Your choices deserve attention. Your family needs clarity.

Planning for dementia can feel confronting, but it begins with protecting the person's choices. Evaheld helps preserve familiar stories, clarify care preferences and organise legal and practical contacts early, with sharing that respects capacity, consent and formal decision-making authority.

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Who you are beyond memory changes

Story & Legacy

Keep your identity visible beyond changes in memory.

Personal history, photographs and favourite experiences can remain available to chosen people as your needs change, providing identity and comfort alongside practical support.

200+ guided ways to preserve a lifetime

Life stories, memoirs & family history

Capture childhood experiences and personal history · Record key family relationships and names · Describe events that explain lifelong values

  • Capture childhood experiences and personal history
  • Record key family relationships and names
  • Describe events that explain lifelong values

Videos, voice, photos & memories

Save familiar speech and voice messages · Attach names and context to old photos · Preserve favourite personal anecdotes

  • Save familiar speech and voice messages
  • Attach names and context to old photos
  • Preserve favourite personal anecdotes

Legacy letters & future messages

Write messages to important loved ones · Prepare future family milestone notes · Record reminders of meaningful achievements

  • Write messages to important loved ones
  • Prepare future family milestone notes
  • Record reminders of meaningful achievements

Values, traditions & remembrance

List familiar songs and cultural practices · Explain routines that bring reassurance · Record wishes about remembrance privately

  • List familiar songs and cultural practices
  • Explain routines that bring reassurance
  • Record wishes about remembrance privately
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Your wishes and future decisions

Advance Care Planning & QR Emergency Card

Prepare future-care wishes before decisions become harder.

Evaheld supports personal advance care planning, directive storage, important healthcare contacts and selected emergency facts. Any legally operative appointment must satisfy the requirements for the relevant jurisdiction.

14 ways to organise care wishes

Advance care planning & directives

Talk about what good care means now · Explore a jurisdictionally appropriate directive · Record treatment values while able to decide

  • Talk about what good care means now
  • Explore a jurisdictionally appropriate directive
  • Record treatment values while able to decide

QR Emergency Access

Select emergency allergies for QR access · Keep medications and conditions current · List family contacts and their roles

  • Select emergency allergies for QR access
  • Keep medications and conditions current
  • List family contacts and their roles

Decision-makers & care team

Record legally appointed decision-makers · Identify trusted clinicians and specialists · Share selected wishes with authorised helpers

  • Record legally appointed decision-makers
  • Identify trusted clinicians and specialists
  • Share selected wishes with authorised helpers

End-of-life, care & personal wishes

Describe home and residential care preferences · Capture sensory, cultural and religious comfort · Review decisions with appropriate support as needs change

  • Describe home and residential care preferences
  • Capture sensory, cultural and religious comfort
  • Review decisions with appropriate support as needs change
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Legal and financial preparedness

Estate Planning

Put legal appointments and practical records in a clear place.

Wills, powers, documents, household information and account references can be organised with appropriate permissions, supporting planning while respecting capacity and legal authority.

23 ways to organise essential records

Wills, powers & legal documents

Locate an existing will while capacity allows · Store powers and guardianship documents · Record solicitor and authorised representative details

  • Locate an existing will while capacity allows
  • Store powers and guardianship documents
  • Record solicitor and authorised representative details

Money, property, super & insurance

Identify relevant financial account locations · List pensions, super and insurance records · Keep property papers and adviser contacts together

  • Identify relevant financial account locations
  • List pensions, super and insurance records
  • Keep property papers and adviser contacts together

Important documents & everyday life

Preserve personal ID and certificates · Record everyday household responsibilities · Document services family may need to manage

  • Preserve personal ID and certificates
  • Record everyday household responsibilities
  • Document services family may need to manage

Digital legacy, Password Manager & final wishes

Keep passwords protected from general sharing · Plan access to digital assets and accounts · Record final wishes only if personally desired

  • Keep passwords protected from general sharing
  • Plan access to digital assets and accounts
  • Record final wishes only if personally desired

Start by recording one preference in your own words.

The best time to share important decisions is while you can explain what they mean.

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PLANNING WHILE YOUR VOICE CAN LEAD

Record who you are and what you want understood, while you can decide.

A dementia diagnosis can make the future feel uncertain. Evaheld offers manageable steps to preserve familiar routines, clarify healthcare wishes and identify important contacts, while respecting capacity, legal authority and the person's decisions.

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Begin with the person, not the condition

Capture your favourite routines, relationships, memories and the things that help you feel comfortable. Written notes or familiar photographs can be enough.

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Set out wishes and recognised roles

Organise any existing directives, named contacts and preferences for future care. Legal appointments require the formal steps applicable to your location.

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People supporting you know what matters

A family member may revisit a favourite story, a carer can be shown a familiar routine and your chosen representative can find relevant wishes. Recording these details early helps preserve your identity and preferences, with sharing and legal authority governed by the right permissions.

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KEEP THE PERSON AT THE CENTRE OF CARE

Keep their voice, wishes and care information
connected.

Bring familiar routines, comfort preferences, important health details and trusted contacts together while they can still guide the story.

START WITH WHAT HELPS

“What helps this person feel most comfortable, understood and at home?”

PERSON-CENTRED CARE, KEPT CLOSE.
THEIR VOICE

The voice you know by heart.

Give them a way to preserve their familiar voice, favourite stories and little pieces of wisdom for those they love.

REAL FAMILIES. REAL EXPERIENCES.

See what changes when everything that matters has a place.

From preserving stories and future messages to documenting care wishes and important information, families share how Evaheld makes it easier to begin, stay connected and leave something meaningful behind.

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"Your legacy: A gift that lasts forever"

See how families use Evaheld to send meaningful messages, preserve memories and create something their loved ones can return to — and add to — over time.

Partner recognition

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✦Awards & recognition
Winner

University of Sydney Genesis Startup Competition 2022

Recognised for innovation in legacy preservation and advance care planning.
Winner

Evaheld wins APAC Insider Business Awards 2024

Most Innovative Memorialisation & Care Planning Business 2024 — Social Impact Startup of the Year 2024
Corporate Vision

Evaheld wins Australian Enterprise Awards 2025

Innovation & Advance Care Planning Company 2025 — Service Excellence 2025
Winner

Evaheld wins APAC Insider Business Awards 2025

Most Compassionate Legacy Planning CEO 2025 — Michelle Gomes
Championing Health State Finalist

Telstra Best of Business Awards 2025

Recognised for innovation in healthcare technology and legacy preservation.
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What is dementia planning, and why should it start immediately after a diagnosis?

Early-stage planning · Legal capacity · Power of attorney
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Dementia planning is the proactive process of making legal, financial, medical, and care decisions while the person with dementia still has the mental capacity to participate. It must start immediately to protect their autonomy, ensure their wishes are honored, prevent future family conflict, and secure the resources and care structure needed for the progressive challenges ahead.
Read full answer: what is dementia planning, and why should it start immediately after a diagnosis?
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What legal documents are essential for someone with dementia?

Durable power of attorney · Healthcare proxy · Living will
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The essential documents are: 1) Durable Financial Power of Attorney (POA), 2) Durable Healthcare Power of Attorney (HCPA) & Advance Directive (Living Will), 3) HIPAA Authorization, and 4) an updated Will. These must be "durable" to remain valid after incapacity. If capacity is in question, a capacity assessment by a doctor concurrent with signing may be necessary.
Read full answer: what legal documents are essential for someone with dementia?
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How do we assess when a person with dementia can no longer live alone, and what are the care options?

Safety assessment · Memory care · Assisted living
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Assess safety by looking for signs like wandering, leaving the stove on, poor hygiene, malnutrition, missed medications, getting lost, or social isolation. A professional geriatric assessment can provide objectivity. Options progress from in-home care (aides, adult day care) to memory care assisted living, and finally to skilled nursing facilities, depending on the stage and behavioral needs.
Read full answer: how do we assess when a person with dementia can no longer live alone, and what are the care options?
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Dementia carer guide: stages, burnout prevention & support

Caregiver burnout · Respite care · Support groups
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Dementia care consuming you? Master the 3 stages and proven burnout prevention strategies that save your sanity while honouring your loved one fully.
Read full answer: dementia carer guide: stages, burnout prevention & support
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What should be included in a dementia-specific advance care plan?

Advance care planning · Dementia directives · End-of-life care dementia
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A dementia-specific advance care plan must go beyond standard forms to address the unique trajectory of the disease. It should include: 1) A values statement defining "quality of life," 2) Specific preferences for treatments common in late-stage dementia (antibiotics for pneumonia, tube feeding, hospitalization), 3) Preferences for comfort-focused care versus life-prolonging measures, and 4) Guidance on the use of restraints or sedation for behavioral symptoms.
Read full answer: what should be included in a dementia-specific advance care plan?
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How can Evaheld help families navigating dementia planning and care?

Dementia care coordination · Legacy preservation · Family communication platform
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Evaheld provides a secure, centralized platform for dementia-specific planning and family collaboration. It helps document critical legal and care information, store and share important documents, facilitate family communication to reduce conflict, and, most importantly, capture and preserve the life stories, voice, and essence of the person with dementia before memories fade, creating a lasting legacy for the family.
Read full answer: how can Evaheld help families navigating dementia planning and care?
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Who is Evaheld actually for?

Legacy Planning · Family Vault · Memory Preservation
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Evaheld is for anyone who wants clarity about their legacy — individuals, families, carers, and adult children planning ahead. It suits every life stage, from young adults organising life admin to older Australians recording stories, care directives and estate documents in one secure, private vault.
Read full answer: who is Evaheld actually for?
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Who should use a digital legacy vault and when should i start?

digital legacy vault · when to start legacy planning · legacy planning for families
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Everyone should use a Digital Legacy Vault, regardless of age. The best time to start is now.
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How do i get started and what should i preserve first?

Getting Started · Legacy Planning · Onboarding Guide
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Start with one urgent item — a treasured memory, a health wish, or a key document — and let Charli guide you with small prompts. Evaheld turns the first ten minutes into real progress, then helps you expand gradually into a complete, organised Legacy Vault at your own pace.
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What do i actually get when i use Evaheld?

Digital Memory Book · Health Directive Tools · Estate Document Vault
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You get a secure digital Legacy Vault with three connected pillars: Story and Legacy for memories, Health and Care for advance directives, and Essentials for wills and records. Charli guides each step, QR emergency access links to your live vault, and private Rooms let you share precise items with specific people.
Read full answer: what do i actually get when i use Evaheld?
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How can extended family collaborate on family legacy documentation?

Extended family · Collaboration · Family historians
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Extended family collaboration involves designating family historians or coordinators, organising family gatherings focused on storytelling, conducting interviews across multiple family branches, creating shared digital archives accessible to all family members, dividing documentation responsibilities by branch or theme, combining multiple perspectives on shared events, resolving disagreements about facts or interpretations respectfully, and recognising that collaborative multi-voice family narrative creates richer legacy than single-author approach.
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Can i share my vault with family members while i am still alive?

share legacy while alive · family vault sharing · living legacy planning
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Yes. Evaheld is private by default, and you can share selected Rooms, records, requests or content with specific family members, carers, executors or advisers while keeping the rest of your Vault private. Sharing is controlled by the Vault owner and can be tailored to the person and purpose.
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