Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-5.13 Comprehensive services for people with cognitive impairment
Clause and reference 15-30(13) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-5.13
The requirement
People living with cognitive impairment, whether acute, chronic or transient, receive comprehensive funded aged care that improves their clinical outcomes and matches their needs, goals and preferences.
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
- Cognitive assessments and delirium screening
- Dementia care plans developed with supporters
- Specialist dementia service referrals
What assessors commonly find
- Delirium mistaken for dementia and untreated
- Care plans not individualised for cognitive impairment
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-5.13 Comprehensive services for people with cognitive impairment, the evidence to bring is: Cognitive assessments and delirium screening; Dementia care plans developed with supporters. It sits under Standard 5 - Clinical care and the instrument's own clause is 15-30(13). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me cognitive assessments and delirium screening, 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