Food focus group toolkit | Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission

Older people have a right to exercise choice and autonomy in their everyday decisions - including food and meal preferences.

This toolkit has information on the benefits of designing menus and dining together with older people. It includes materials that services can adapt to suit their needs on setting up and running a food focus group and other ways to collect feedback from residents.

Introduction to food focus groups

Why working together with older people is so important

About the toolkit

This toolkit has a range of printable resources, including a fact sheet, checklist, feedback form and meeting templates. The resources can help providers work with older people to improve their food and dining.

What is a food focus group?

Learn about the benefits of a food focus group

Creating a food focus group

Find out how to run an effective group in your service

Positive stories - food focus groups

Real-life examples of what can improve through working with older people

Food focus group resources

Resources to help you set up food focus groups, such as meeting templates and factsheets