This fact sheet is for people receiving aged care services and provides information on the Commission’s dedicated Food, Nutrition and Dining Hotline to receive questions, concerns and complaints about food, nutrition and dining in aged care.
This fact sheet is for aged care providers and provides information on the Commission’s dedicated Food, Nutrition and Dining Hotline to receive questions, concerns and complaints about food, nutrition and dining in aged care.
This fact sheet outlines the steps you should take to support residents to make an informed choice to eat and drink with acknowledged risk and for providers to meet their duty of care to the residents and to staff.
This fact sheet outlines your right to make choices about your food and drink. This includes how your care team can support you to make an informed choice about food or drink that may be a risk to your health.
You have the right to make choices about your life in residential aged care. This includes what you eat, drink and your dining experience. The Aged Care Quality Standards state that you can make informed choices and live the life you choose.
This fact sheet provides an overview for residential aged care staff (including chefs, cooks, food service and care staff) on the requirements and importance of residents’ rights to making choices about their food, drink and dining experience.
This fact sheet provides an overview for providers on the importance of supporting residents to make ongoing, informed choices about their food, drink and dining experience in line with the Aged Care Quality Standards.
This fact sheet provides an overview of how your care team (cooks, chefs, food service and care staff) can support you to make ongoing, informed choices about your food, drink and dining experience.
You must be given the choice to accept risks so you can live the life you choose. The Aged Care Charter of Rights states that you have the right to make choices, even if those choices are a risk to you.
