Aged Care Quality Standards
Standard 7 - The residential community
ACQS25-7.1 Services that optimise quality of life and enable individuals to do what they want
Clause and reference 15-40(1) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-7.1
The requirement
The funded aged care each person receives lifts their quality of life, makes the most of their skills and strengths, and opens up the things they want to do.
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
- Lifestyle programme reflecting residents' diversity and preferences
- Participation records
- Records of support for community connections and relationships
What assessors commonly find
- Generic activity calendar not based on preferences
- Loneliness not identified or addressed
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-7.1 Services that optimise quality of life and enable individuals, the evidence to bring is: Lifestyle programme reflecting residents' diversity and preferences; Participation records. It sits under Standard 7 - The residential community and the instrument's own clause is 15-40(1). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me lifestyle programme reflecting residents' diversity and preferences, 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