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Quality Standards Resource Centre

The Quality Standards Resource Centre helps extend understanding of the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, which take effect from 1 November 2025. The Resource Centre will be updated to reflect key changes made to the draft strengthened Standards. You can search for resources by using keywords, or filtering by standard, outcome, audience and theme. Before using the Resource Centre, please read the terms of use.

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/quality-standards/familiar-places-webinar-2-bedrooms-and-dining-areas

Familiar Places Webinar 2 – Bedrooms and Dining Areas

Webinar
Published date

This webpage provides a video webinar focused on familiar places, such as bedrooms and dining areas, for dementia care environments. It offers insights into how these spaces can be designed to support the wellbeing of people living with dementia, with a particular emphasis on creating comfortable and familiar settings.

Author
External resource
Key Theme
Food and nutrition, Delivering comprehensive care and services, Environment
Standard
6: Food and Nutrition, 4: The Environment
Outcomes
6.4: Dining experience, 4.1b: Environment – services delivered other than in the individual’s home
Familiar Places Webinar 2 – Bedrooms and Dining Areas
/quality-standards/translated-resources-sexually-transmissible-infections

Translated resources on sexually transmissible infections

Fact sheet, Video
Last Updated

This resource provides translated videos, fact sheets, and posters from the Beforeplay campaign to educate multicultural communities about sexually transmissible infections (STIs). It promotes STI testing, safe sex practices, and includes materials in multiple languages to improve accessibility and encourage conversations around sexual health.

Author
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Key Theme
Infection prevention and control
Standard
4: The Environment, 5: Clinical Care
Outcomes
4.2: Infection prevention and control, 5.2: Preventing and controlling infections in delivering clinical care services
Translated resources on sexually transmissible infections
/quality-standards/resources-sexually-transmissible-infections

Resources on sexually transmissible infections

Fact sheet, Video
Last Updated

This resource offers materials from the Beforeplay campaign to raise awareness about sexually transmissible infections (STIs). It provides videos, fact sheets, and posters aimed at educating people on STI prevention, testing, and protection, with tailored resources for various groups including young people, couples, and healthcare professionals. 

Author
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Key Theme
Infection prevention and control
Standard
4: The Environment, 5: Clinical Care
Outcomes
4.2: Infection prevention and control, 5.2: Preventing and controlling infections in delivering clinical care services
Resources on sexually transmissible infections
/quality-standards/hand-hygiene-helping-others-hand-hygiene

Hand Hygiene - Helping others with hand hygiene

Video
Published date

Infection prevention and control helps to stop the spread of germs like bacteria and viruses that cause respiratory infections and gastroenteritis. Hand hygiene is a very important part of this. 

In this video you will learn how to clean another person's hands.

Author
Aged Care Quality & Safety Commission
Key Theme
Infection prevention and control
Standard
5: Clinical Care, 4: The Environment
Outcomes
5.2: Preventing and controlling infections in delivering clinical care services, 4.2: Infection prevention and control
Hand hygiene video thumbnail
/quality-standards/your-role-infection-prevention-and-control-when-visiting-aged-care-service

Your role in infection prevention and control when visiting an aged care service

Video
Published date

Infection prevention and control, also known as IPC, are the steps and processes that people can use to reduce the spread of harmful germs and bacteria. 

People who visit aged care services can help support IPC processes.

Author
Aged Care Quality & Safety Commission
Key Theme
Infection prevention and control
Standard
4: The Environment, 5: Clinical Care
Outcomes
4.2: Infection prevention and control, 5.2: Preventing and controlling infections in delivering clinical care services
Your role in infection prevention and control video thumbnail