Lantern Alliance Quality Standards Symposium - QS 1: The Person

Access to the meeting is online via Zoom.

Quality Standard 1: The Person

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 1: The Person - through the lens of food, nutrition and dining experience.

QS 1 - INTENT

Standard 1 underpins the way that providers and workers are expected to treat older people and is relevant to all standards. Standard 1 reflects important concepts about dignity and respect, older person individuality and diversity, independence, choice and control, culturally safe care and dignity of risk. These are all important in fostering a sense of safety, autonomy, inclusion and quality of life for older people.

Older people are valuable members of society, with rich and varied histories, characteristics, identities, interests and life experiences.

Older people can come from a diverse range of backgrounds and groups, including, but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people living in rural or remote areas, people who are financially or socially disadvantaged, people who are veterans, people experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless, people who are care leavers (i.e. a person who spent time in care as a child), parents separated from their children by forced adoption or removal, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex, people of various religions, people experiencing mental health problems and mental illness, people living with cognitive impairment including dementia, people living with disability.

A person’s diversity does not define who they are, but it is critical that providers recognise and embrace each person’s diversity and who they are holistically as a person, and that this drives how providers and workers engage with older people and deliver their care and services.