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    About us

    • What we do
      • Our role with adults
      • OPG for children and young people
      • National Redress Scheme and OPG
    • Where we are
      • How we make decisions
        • Our policies
        • Decision making frameworks
      • OPG and the Queensland Human Rights Act
        • Community Visitor Program
          • The purpose of the visitor program
          • Reporting a visitable site to the Public Guardian
          • What does a Community Visitor for children do?
          • What does a Community Visitor for adults do?
          • Request a visit from the community visitor program
        • Child Legal Advocacy
          • Adult Legal Advocacy and Decision Making
            • What does a legal officer for adults do?
            • Contact a legal officer
          • Our people
            • Forms
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                • Multilingual fact sheets
              • Community education
                • Publications
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                  • Annual reports
                  • Statements of commitment
                  • Strategic plan
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                  • OPG News
                • Complaints and feedback
                  • Make a complaint about OPG
                  • Making a complaint about a service provider or government department
                • Work at OPG
                  • Join our team of community visitors
                  • A day in the life of a community visitor
                  • FAQs for community visitors
                • Contact us
                • I am a child or young person
                  I am a child or young person

                  • Who can help you
                    • Community Visitor
                    • Child Advocate
                    • A day in the life of a Child Community Visitor
                    • A day in the life of a Child Advocate
                  • Know your rights
                    • My rights
                    • My standards of care
                    • Stand up for yourself
                    • OPG child advocates
                  • Protecting the rights of children in visitable sites
                    • Speak to us
                    • Guardianship and decision making
                      Guardianship and decision making

                      • What is impaired decision-making capacity?
                        • When is a guardian appointed?
                          • Getting a guardian
                            • Healthcare
                            • Mental health
                            • Links to policies relating to decision making
                            • Disputing a decision made by the OPG
                          • Plan ahead
                            • Why plan now?
                            • What does planning involve?
                            • The forms
                            • Your questions answered
                            • Resources for attorneys
                          • How we make decisions
                            • Private Guardian Support
                              • Restrictive Practices decision making
                              • Supported decision making
                            • Health Care Decision Making
                              • Health care principle
                              • Advance health directive
                              • Making health care decisions for others
                              • Responsibilities of a statutory health attorney
                            • Our role with NDIS
                              • Mental health care decisions
                                • Objectives of the MHA
                                • Mental Health Act 2016 changes
                                • Consent for mental health treatment and care
                                • Additional resources
                                • Consent-to-mental-health-treatment-and-care-by-the-Public-Guardian-policy.pdf
                              • Residential aged care decisions
                                • What are the general principles?
                                • What do we take into account when deciding whether to make a residential aged care decision?
                                • Other considerations
                                • What information do we require in order to make a residential aged care decision?
                              • A day in the life of a Guardian
                                • A day in the life of a Legal Officer - Adult Legal Team
                                  • Contact guardianship services
                                  • Community visitors for adults
                                    Community visitors for adults

                                    • Visiting Adults
                                      • A day in the life of an Adult Community Visitor
                                        • Request a Visit
                                        • Investigating abuse of adults
                                          Investigating abuse of adults

                                          • What is abuse?
                                            • Definitions of abuse
                                            • Elder abuse
                                          • Reporting abuse to OPG
                                            • When can I report abuse to OPG?
                                            • What is impaired decision-making capacity?
                                            • What information do I need to report abuse to OPG?
                                            • What is the reporting process?
                                            • FAQs about reporting abuse to OPG
                                            • Report abuse now
                                          • Our investigations process
                                            • What situations can OPG investigate?
                                            • What powers of investigation do we have?
                                            • What happens during an investigation?
                                            • Possible investigation outcomes
                                            • Investigations FAQs
                                            • A day in the life of an Investigations Officer
                                          • Case studies
                                            • Jail time for fraudulent daughter
                                            • Protection for Gladys
                                            • Henry gets help and his son gets caught out
                                            • Jean — a conflict transaction victim
                                          • Information for professionals
                                            • Financial institutions staff
                                            • Residential aged care staff
                                            • Doctors and health workers
                                          • Who else can help?
                                            • Elder abuse
                                            • Disability advocacy and support
                                            • Legal services and tribunals
                                        • Restrictive practices
                                          Restrictive practices

                                          • Restrictive practices approval
                                            • Decision Making Framework
                                            • Health decisions
                                              Health decisions

                                              • Making health care decisions for others
                                                • Health care consent line
                                                  • Responsibilities of a statutory health attorney
                                                    • Advance Health Directive
                                                      • Mental health care decisions
                                                        • Objectives of the MHA
                                                        • Mental Health Act 2016 changes
                                                        • Consent for mental health treatment and care
                                                        • Additional resources
                                                        • Consent-to-mental-health-treatment-and-care-by-the-Public-Guardian-policy.pdf
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