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Make your will, record future healthcare preferences, organise passwords, digital assets and essential documents, and nominate the people you trust. Take practical steps today so loved ones understand your wishes and know where to find important information when it matters most.

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YOUR FUTURE PLANNING VAULT

Your Will. Care Wishes. Important Documents. All Together.

“The important details are all in one place…”
Make Your Wishes Known Today.Give Your Family Clarity for Tomorrow.

Planning Ahead

Planning Ahead Checklist for Care Wishes, Documents and Family Guidance

For people searching for a planning ahead checklist, getting affairs in order or what documents should my family know about, this pathway helps organise care wishes, powers of attorney, wills, contacts and guidance before decisions become urgent.

Planning Ahead

Planning Ahead Checklist

Plan ahead with care wishes, powers of attorney, wills, important documents, emergency information and family guidance organised before an emergency makes decisions harder.

  • Make Future Decisions Clearer

  • Organise Wills and Powers of Attorney

  • Give Family One Place to Start

Founding Family Offer

Two lifetime vaults.
One lasting family legacy.

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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Story & LegacyStories, voice, video, letters and future messages
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GET ORGANISED BEFORE LIFE MAKES IT URGENT

Your Planning Ahead Checklist for Wills, Care Wishes & Documents

Your storyYour wishesYour essentials

Less guessing later. More freedom to live now.

Planning ahead isn't about expecting the worst. It's about making choices while you can explain them: healthcare preferences, the people you trust, the documents that matter and the stories worth leaving. Evaheld gives you one guided place to begin and keep things current.

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What you'd want people to know

Story & Legacy

Leave the context behind your choices, not just instructions.

Voice recordings, stories and personal values give the people closest to you something meaningful to understand, beyond a list of tasks or documents.

200+ guided ways to preserve a lifetime

Life stories, memoirs & family history

Tell the story of your most important relationships · Recall experiences that shaped your outlook · Record advice you want to pass on

  • Tell the story of your most important relationships
  • Recall experiences that shaped your outlook
  • Record advice you want to pass on

Videos, voice, photos & memories

Save a voice message for someone you love · Preserve significant photos with explanations · Document moments that defined your values

  • Save a voice message for someone you love
  • Preserve significant photos with explanations
  • Document moments that defined your values

Legacy letters & future messages

Write a personal letter to family · Prepare future birthday or milestone messages · Record words for a later life event

  • Write a personal letter to family
  • Prepare future birthday or milestone messages
  • Record words for a later life event

Values, traditions & remembrance

Describe guiding principles in your own voice · Preserve traditions that matter to you · State how you wish to be remembered

  • Describe guiding principles in your own voice
  • Preserve traditions that matter to you
  • State how you wish to be remembered
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Healthcare choices in advance

Advance Care Planning & QR Emergency Card

Put your care preferences into words before others have to ask.

Evaheld guides your advance care planning, records treatment wishes and decision-maker information, and helps keep selected details accessible through your Emergency QR Card.

14 ways to prepare care wishes and emergency details

Advance care planning & directives

Begin an Advance Care Directive with guided prompts · Record treatment goals and personal boundaries · Identify legal form pathways for your location

  • Begin an Advance Care Directive with guided prompts
  • Record treatment goals and personal boundaries
  • Identify legal form pathways for your location

QR Emergency Access

Decide which allergies belong on emergency access · Keep medications and conditions updated · Nominate who should be contacted first

  • Decide which allergies belong on emergency access
  • Keep medications and conditions updated
  • Nominate who should be contacted first

Decision-makers & care team

Record intended healthcare representatives · Store key clinician details · Share chosen plans with trusted people

  • Record intended healthcare representatives
  • Store key clinician details
  • Share chosen plans with trusted people

End-of-life, care & personal wishes

Explain home or hospital preferences · Capture spiritual and comfort wishes · Review decisions after major life events

  • Explain home or hospital preferences
  • Capture spiritual and comfort wishes
  • Review decisions after major life events
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Estate and household readiness

Estate Planning

Find the will, passwords and vital details before they're urgently needed.

Estate planning becomes easier when legal papers, digital accounts, financial references and everyday instructions are collected over time, with permissions set deliberately.

23 ways to organise practical essentials

Wills, powers & legal documents

Create or locate your will · Store power of attorney documents · List executors and legal professionals

  • Create or locate your will
  • Store power of attorney documents
  • List executors and legal professionals

Money, property, super & insurance

Record insurance and policy providers · Organise super and investment references · Identify property and asset records

  • Record insurance and policy providers
  • Organise super and investment references
  • Identify property and asset records

Important documents & everyday life

Store important identity and family papers · List subscriptions and recurring payments · Write household handover instructions

  • Store important identity and family papers
  • List subscriptions and recurring payments
  • Write household handover instructions

Digital legacy, Password Manager & final wishes

Keep passwords within eligible secure storage · Document digital asset preferences · Record funeral and final wishes only when ready

  • Keep passwords within eligible secure storage
  • Document digital asset preferences
  • Record funeral and final wishes only when ready

Start now, so important choices are not left to chance.

One guided decision can be the beginning of a genuinely useful family plan.

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PREPAREDNESS WITHOUT PRESSURE

Make one important decision now, before anyone has to guess.

Planning ahead can feel like a list of intimidating legal and medical tasks. Evaheld lets you begin with a care preference, trusted person or key document location, then build a practical record you can review as life changes.

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Choose the question you've been putting off

Start with who should be contacted, how you'd want future care handled or where a signed will is kept. Charli breaks a complex topic into manageable decisions.

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Record your choices and find the next step

Organise your wishes, existing directives and estate contacts. Formal signatures or appointments still follow the rules of your jurisdiction.

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Loved ones can find the answers you chose to leave

A partner can know whom to call, an adult child may be shown where a signed will is kept, and trusted people can understand your care preferences before a crisis. Review the details as life changes; sharing information does not replace legal appointments or formally completed directives.

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PLAN AHEAD, AT YOUR OWN PACE

Make your wishes clear
before they are needed.

Bring care wishes, trusted contacts and the important practical details together, so the people close to you have clearer guidance when it matters.

START WITH ONE WISH

“What would you want the people you trust to understand about your care?”

YOUR WISHES. CLEARLY HELD.
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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Why should i plan ahead and get my affairs in order even if i'm relatively young and healthy?

Planning ahead · Estate planning · Advance planning
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Planning ahead at any age provides peace of mind, protects loved ones from chaos during emergencies, ensures your wishes are known and honoured, prevents family conflict and confusion, makes difficult decisions during calm rather than crisis, demonstrates care for those you'll leave behind, and recognises that unexpected events—accidents, sudden illness, or death—can strike anyone regardless of age or current health status.
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What documents should everyone have in place?

Legal documents · Wills · Power of attorney
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Documents include a will specifying asset distribution and guardian appointments, lasting power of attorney for financial decisions, advance healthcare directive or living will for medical preferences, funeral wishes documentation, and digital asset access information—these fundamental documents ensure your wishes are legally binding and your loved ones can act on your behalf during incapacity or after death.
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How do i organise important information and documents for my family?

Organisation · Document management · Information systems
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Organise by creating a comprehensive master document listing all accounts, assets, debts, and important information, consolidating legal documents in secure accessible location, documenting passwords and digital access, providing clear instructions about location of everything, creating both digital and physical backup systems, and ensuring trusted family members know where to find information—transforming scattered chaos into organised accessible system loved ones can navigate during crisis.
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How should i approach difficult conversations about planning with family?

Difficult conversations · Family communication · Planning discussions
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Approach difficult planning conversations by choosing calm appropriate timing, framing discussions as care and responsibility rather than morbidity, starting with your own planning before discussing others', being direct but compassionate about mortality realities, inviting questions and concerns, respecting resistance whilst planting seeds for future consideration, and recognising that multiple conversations over time work better than single comprehensive discussion—death and incapacity aren't comfortable topics but addressing them protects everyone involved.
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What financial planning should i do to protect my family?

Financial planning · Life insurance · Retirement planning
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Essential financial planning includes adequate life insurance to replace income and cover debts, emergency savings covering 3-6 months of expenses, retirement planning and superannuation maximisation, debt management and elimination strategy, will and beneficiary designation alignment, clear asset and account documentation, consideration of income protection insurance, estate tax planning when appropriate, and regular financial review adjusting to life changes—creating comprehensive financial protection for family regardless of what happens.
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How do i document my wishes about medical care and end-of-life decisions?

Healthcare directive · Medical wishes · End-of-life care
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Document medical wishes through advance healthcare directive specifying life support preferences, designating healthcare proxy for medical decisions, expressing values about quality versus quantity of life, addressing specific medical scenarios, communicating organ donation preferences, explaining spiritual or religious considerations, discussing with healthcare providers and proxy, and reviewing regularly as perspectives evolve—ensuring medical care aligns with your values when you cannot communicate directly.
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What practical information does my family need if something happens to me?

Practical information · Family needs · Account details
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Families need comprehensive practical information including all account details and access, contact information for advisors and important people, employment and benefits information, children's routine and care needs, household management details, pet care instructions, bill payment schedules, ongoing obligations and commitments, hidden or unusual assets, and location of all important documents—essentially everything required to maintain household operations, manage affairs, and access necessary information during crisis or after death.
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How does Evaheld support comprehensive planning ahead?

Evaheld platform · Planning tools · Organisation systems
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Evaheld provides structured guidance through comprehensive planning including legal document tracking, financial information organisation, healthcare wish documentation, practical information consolidation, family contact management, digital asset inventory, regular update reminders, secure encrypted storage, selective sharing controls, and AI-assisted prompts ensuring nothing important is forgotten—transforming overwhelming planning complexity into manageable guided process with everything organised in one secure accessible location.
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How do i maintain and update my planning as life changes?

Updates · Plan maintenance · Review schedules
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Maintain planning through annual comprehensive reviews regardless of changes, immediate updates after major life events like marriage or birth, regular password and access information updates, periodic beneficiary designation verification, contact information currency checks, document expiration monitoring, healthcare preference review as perspectives evolve, and establishing review routines making maintenance habitual rather than forgettable—recognising that outdated planning creates confusion defeating the purpose of planning altogether.
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What benefits do families gain from comprehensive planning ahead?

family planning ahead · peace of mind for families · estate and care preparation
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Families gain profound peace of mind knowing wishes are documented, dramatic crisis stress reduction through organised accessible information, prevention of family conflict about decisions or inheritance, faster simpler estate administration saving time and money, preservation of family relationships through clear guidance, confidence that all practical matters are addressed, ability to focus on grief rather than logistics during bereavement, and lasting appreciation for thoughtful preparation demonstrating care and responsibility—comprehensive planning represents final gift of love and consideration.
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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.
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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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