Aged Care Quality Standards
Standard 6 - Food and nutrition
ACQS25-6.2 Understanding and assessing nutritional needs and preferences
Clause and reference 15-35(2) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-6.2
The requirement
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.
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
- Nutrition and dining assessments and reassessments
- Dietary preference records communicated to the kitchen
- Swallowing assessments
What assessors commonly find
- Preferences recorded once and never updated
- Kitchen unaware of dietary needs
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-6.2 Understanding and assessing nutritional needs and preferences, the evidence to bring is: Nutrition and dining assessments and reassessments; Dietary preference records communicated to the kitchen. It sits under Standard 6 - Food and nutrition and the instrument's own clause is 15-35(2). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me nutrition and dining assessments and reassessments, 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