What evidence do I need for the food and nutrition standard?
The provider partners with individuals on a quality food and drinks service, assesses each person's nutritional needs and preferences, provides nutritious and appetising food with variation and choice, records the support a person needs to eat and drink, and keeps the mealtime and texture-modified food procedures current.
Answered from the held text of Aged Care Quality Standards ACQS25-6.1. The clause behind it is cited below, and the requirement page carries the evidence an assessor asks for.
What the clause behind this answer says
ACQS25-6.1 Partnering with individuals on a quality food and drinks service
The provider partners with the people it serves on a food and drinks service that is of good quality and offers appetising variety and a dining experience people enjoy.
Source: Aged Care Quality Standards on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
ACQS25-6.2 Understanding and assessing nutritional needs and preferences
The provider understands each person's particular nutritional needs and assesses the needs, abilities and preferences they have now about the food and drink they take and how they take it.
Source: Aged Care Quality Standards on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
ACQS25-6.4 Support to eat and drink
The provider supports each person to eat and to drink.
Source: Aged Care Quality Standards on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
core-26a.8 Mealtime management: texture-modified food and fluid procedures
Procedures let workers prepare and provide texture-modified foods and fluids according to each participant's mealtime management plan and check that meals are the correct texture identified in the plan.
Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
What evidence answers it
- Food committee or resident meeting minutes
- Satisfaction surveys and improvement actions
- Food service monitoring against intake and health outcomes
What assessors commonly find
- Menu set centrally without resident input
- Satisfaction feedback not acted on
The reviewer opens with
Show me food committee or resident meeting minutes, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
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Where to go next
- ACQS25-6.1 Partnering with individuals on a quality food and drinks service
- ACQS25-6.2 Understanding and assessing nutritional needs and preferences
- ACQS25-6.4 Support to eat and drink
- core-26a.8 Mealtime management: texture-modified food and fluid procedures
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