With worries about not having enough participant funds and the expected annual funding exceeding $125 billion by 2034, it's important to plan strategically. Review the impact of the final report from the Royal Commission on Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability. Make sure you comply with regulations and understand the powers of the NDIS Commission. Be across the issues and conflicts involved with disability, capacity, & supported decision-making, and connect the dots between the proposed New Aged Care Act and the NDIS sector.

Presenters

Rodney Lewis, Senior Solicitor, Elderlaw Legal Services
Author of the text: Elder Law in Australia, 2nd edn, Lexis Nexis, Sydney 2012; has practised in Elder Law since 1999 and longer, in wills and estates; has been delivering elder law education by way of talks and seminars to the legal profession and to the community, in elder law, for many years.


Alison Choy Flannigan, Partner, Hall & Wilcox
With over 25 years of corporate, commercial and regulatory experience, Alison has specialised in advising clients in the health, aged care, retirement living, disability, life sciences and community sectors. Alison co-leads the Health & Community Practice at National Law firm, Hall & Wilcox. Alison has been listed in The Best Lawyers in Australia (and the Australian Financial Review) since 2008 for Health & Aged Care and also Retirement Living and Biotechnology. She has been recognised in the Doyle's Guide to the Australian Legal Profession as a Leading Health and Aged Care Lawyer each and every year since 2017. Alison has been a finalist for the Lawyers Weekly Partner of the Year in Health every year since 2016 and won this prestigious award in 2019, 2020 and 2021. She was a finalist in the Lawyers Weekly, Women in Law Awards, Partner of the Year - Big Law, 2019 and 2021.


Professor Carmelle Peisah, Professor University of New South Wales; Associate Professor Sydney University
Professor Carmelle Peisah Peisah is an old age psychiatrist and Conjoint Professor of Medicine at UNSW. She holds the positions of Conjoint Professor University of New South Wales; Clinical Associate Professor Sydney University; and founder and president of the charity Capacity Australia. Professor Peisah's areas of expertise are capacity and human rights (including elder abuse prevention); BPSD management (including non-pharmacological management, de-prescribing and emergency sedation); doctor health and welfare (including ageing and retirement); family therapy in old age psychiatry; and end-of- life issues in dementia and mental illness. She has numerous awards for teaching and contributions to psychiatry and in 2017 was a Nominee for Woman of the Year.


Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Kim is a Barrister at Frederick Jordan Chambers in Sydney. Kim practises in Equity, Common Law, Protective and Guardianship Law, and in the Probate and Succession List. Prior to coming to the Bar, she practised as a Solicitor in commercial and civil litigation law in England and Wales, New South Wales and Queensland. More recently, she was a Solicitor at the Seniors Rights Service, an independent legal centre and regularly attended the UN Open-ended Working Group on Ageing in New York as a civil society representative. Kim was appointed to the NSW Minister of Fair Trading's Retirement Villages Advisory Council in 2013 and also to the Minister's Expert Committee on Retirement Villages Standard Contract Terms and Disclosure Documents in 2011. Kim was a Member of the inaugural Legal Services Council in 2014 and reappointed from 2017-2020. She is a past Treasurer of the International Commission of Jurists Australia and was appointed to the NSW Bar Association’s Succession and Elder Law Committee in 2021, 2022 and 2023.


Rebecca Anderson, Solicitor, ADA Law
Rebecca Anderson is a human rights advocate for Aged and Disability Advocacy (ADA) Australia. She completed her undergraduate degree in law at the Queensland University of Technology, and postgraduate degree in law at the Australian National University, Canberra. Her special interest is adults with questionable capacity, and the intersection of health and justice.


Michael Perkins, Principal, Autonomy First Lawyers
Michael is a lawyer, author, and educator with over 30 years’ experience in trusts, estates and private client practice. He is a strong supporter of Supported Decision Making as a method of client care in professional practice and dealing with the orderly management of a person’s longevity as they age. Michael helps resolve broader complexity and conflict in the lives of his clients, where possible without resort to litigation or other dispute resolution processes. This capability is born from Michael’s decades of knowledge of the law and deep understanding of how families need to operate to sustain themselves across generations. Michael helps clients deal with the practical, policy, strategic and operational needs of their wealth conservation, estate governance and administration and succession objectives.


William Johns, Managing Director and Principal Financial Planner, Health and Finance Integrated Pty Ltd
William is a pioneer in the areas of disability and illness personal finance. Uniquely, William combines extremely rare insight being dually qualified. He is a disability expert and has been recognised as an emerging leader by the Australian Government. He is a highly skilled and qualified Certified Financial Planner, and has been awarded Australia’s highest achievements by the Financial Planning Association of Australia. Using his skills, he has helped hundreds of Australians move forward with certainty in highly stressful situations. In order to deliver such outcomes, the person’s situation is examined thoroughly including how our services could be delivered in an accessible way.


Brad Fitzgerald, Director, Clements Fitzgerald Lawyers , Educator, Griffith Law School, Non-Executive Director for Not-for-Profit Organisations
Brad Fitzgerald is a Director of Clements Fitzgerald Lawyers and specialises in Mental Health and Disability Law, Regulatory Compliance and Litigation, and Criminal Defence. Brad's experience has included serving as General Counsel, and at times as the Commissioner, at the Legal Services Commission - the regulatory body for lawyers in Queensland, the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist within Queensland Health, and in private legal practice.