This is one in a series of state-by-state interviews with eminent legal professionals who explain how to ensure your wishes are respected and how your affairs will be handled if you lose capacity as you age.
Financial decisions, big or small, are important for everyone’s wellbeing and security at any time in life, but they are vital as people age.
If you lose the ability to manage your own financial affairs, how will they be handled? Who will decide to pay your bills or choose how your care will be funded?
Making an enduring power of attorney is an important thing to get right, because it is the document that will outline how you want decisions made about your financial affairs if you can’t make them yourself.
Compass was joined by Sadie Davis, principal Lawyer at Justice Connect, for an important conversation about making an enduring power of attorney for financial decisions in New South Wales. And everyone had their questions ready for this Q&A event
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Sadie Davis is the principal lawyer in the Seniors Law team at Justice Connect, a community legal centre.
Sadie is based at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney and works in a health justice partnership to provide legal assistance to older patients of SVH who are experiencing or at risk of elder abuse and to assist health workers at SVH by providing education and legal assistance.
Sadie has over 25 years experience as a lawyer working in community legal centres, government and private practice.
In 2018 Sadie completed a Masters in Law in wills and estates. Sadie has been working in elder law for the last 15 years.
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