Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-1.6 Choice and decision-making, with support when wanted or needed
Clause and reference 15-10(6) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-1.6
The requirement
The provider supports each person to exercise choice and to decide about their funded aged care, and gives that support whenever the person wants or needs it.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: Aged Care Quality Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Decision support process identifying who needs support
- Records involving supporters and advocates
- Evidence substitute decision-makers are used only after supported options
What assessors commonly find
- Substitute decision-maker consulted by default
- Individual's own choices not recorded
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-1.6 Choice and decision-making, with support when wanted or needed, the evidence to bring is: Decision support process identifying who needs support; Records involving supporters and advocates. It sits under Standard 1 - The individual and the instrument's own clause is 15-10(6). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me decision support process identifying who needs support, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading