Any person who is trusted by their client can help them complete an Advance Care Plan. In fact many professionals are required to offer advance care planning as part of a wholistic aged care advisory service, or as a government supported aged care provider. Trusted advisers, social workers, nurses or doctors are commonly asked by people to assist them in their estate planning or end of life planning. Any of these people can help someone prepare an advance care plan. However they must not lead their client in any way. Many professionals do not feel confident about all of the legal, family, social, spiritual and medical aspects of advance care planning. That is why Touchstone Life Care has an INTEROPERABLE planning system. This means you can assist your patient or client to think about, or start their plan, and recommend they share it with other trusted contacts or advisers to get answers to questions that might arise. A Touchstone Life Care plan can be started by an estate planner and the client can be helped to complete it by their GP- or vice versa. You should emphasise to your client that they should make their decisions without being coerced in any way, and they should demonstrate that they have capacity to make these decisions and understand the consequences of their decisions. Touchstone Life Care’s unique automated sharing system grants additional legal validity to these plans because their trusted contacts can see, read and discuss the plan ahead of time, thereby vouching that it was prepared without coercion, that the person making it had capacity at the time. Or, if there is any doubt about the plan they can contact the person who made it, or the other contacts listed to discuss their concerns about it.