Aged Care Quality Standards
Standard 6 - Food and nutrition
ACQS25-6.5 Dining experience that supports social engagement and quality of life
Clause and reference 15-35(5) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-6.5
The requirement
The dining experience answers each person's needs and preferences, so it supports their social engagement, their function and their quality of life.
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
- Dining environment audits
- Feedback on dining experience
- Arrangements for dining with visitors
What assessors commonly find
- Institutional dining routines
- No option to dine with family
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-6.5 Dining experience that supports social engagement and quality of life, the evidence to bring is: Dining environment audits; Feedback on dining experience. It sits under Standard 6 - Food and nutrition and the instrument's own clause is 15-35(5). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me dining environment audits, 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