Resources

This toolkit from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission encourages aged care providers to work directly with residents through food focus groups so people can shape menus and dining experiences that reflect their tastes and needs. It supports providers to listen, collaborate and use resident feedback to improve food, nutrition and dining in their services.

This webpage by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission shows how culturally inclusive mealtimes support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights to identity, dignity and choice in aged care. It highlights food and dining as everyday opportunities to uphold cultural safety and respect.

This guide from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, provides practical advice for families and carers to create supportive mealtime experiences at home for people living with dementia, encouraging independence, enjoyment and good nutrition.

This article from Navjot Gill-Chawla, explores how food can support people living with dementia, highlighting the role of nutrition in enhancing quality of life, stimulating memories, and promoting social connection.

This is an interactive, fillable form to be used by aged care staff to plan their services' food, nutrition and dining goals to improve resident's and older people's experiences of dining.

A PowerPoint presentation by the Commission to be used by aged care providers as a resource to support  staff to learn about food, nutrition and dining framed within the four priority areas of dining, choice, swallowing and oral health. 

The Commission has developed this resource for providers to introduce food, nutrition and dining topics to their staff. Each topic area is supported by a resource having two different sets of reflective discussion points, a set for the corporate group and one for staff providing direct care.

A fact sheet explaining how older people receiving aged care services can use the Food, Nutrition and Dining Hotline to ask questions, raise concerns or make a complaint about their dining experiences.

The Commission has developed this communication kit to help service providers to spread the word to staff and older people about their Food, Nutrition and Dining Hotline. The kit includes social media posts and tiles, video, fact sheets and a newsletter article to promote the Hotline and other food, nutrition and dining resources. 

This fact sheet outlines the the Commission's Food, Nutrition and Dining Hotline and how the service can support aged care providers and people receiving aged care services.