Lantern Alliance Quality Standards Symposium - QS 7: The Residential Community

Access to the meeting is online via Zoom.

Quality Standard 7: The Residential Community

In 2025, Lantern Alliance will be running a series of comprehensive, online, symposiums designed to engage key stakeholders, industry professionals, and thought leaders in meaningful conversations about the challenges, opportunities, and best practices for implementing and complying with the strengthened Quality Standards.

Each monthly symposium will focus on one of the Quality Standards and its connection to the food, nutrition, and dining experience. As a part of each session, we will be hosting a panel session which will bring together leading experts, professionals, and residents to discuss the implications of the strengthened standards for aged care providers, carers, catering staff and of course residents. 

Quality Standard 6 – Food and Nutrition – 13 February 2025

Quality Standard 1 – The Person – 13 March 2025

Quality Standard 2 – The Organisation – 10 April 2025

Quality Standard 3 – Care and Services – 8 May 2025

Quality Standard 4 – The Environment – 12 June 2025

Quality Standard 5 – Clinical Care – 10 July 2025

Quality Standard 7 – The Residential Community – 14 August 2025

This Symposium will focus on Quality Standard 7: The Residential Community - through the lens of food, nutrition and dining experience.

QS 7 - INTENT

When people move into a residential service, the residential community becomes a central feature of their lives. It is critical that older people feel safe and at home in the residential community, have opportunities to do things that are meaningful to them and are supported to maintain connections with people important to them. Meaningful activities can include participating in hobbies or community groups, seeing friends and family or activities that contribute to the residential community such as gardening, cooking and setting tables.

A residential community can involve diverse members from different cultures and backgrounds. It is important that each older person's culture is respected, and their diversity valued so they feel included, safe and at home in the service.

Given the scope of responsibility in residential care, providers also have increased requirements to ensure that older people have access to other services and to coordinate a planned transition to or from the service to maximise continuity of care for older people.

Standard 7 is intended to apply only to residential care services.