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Older people in residential aged care have a right to eat nutritious, flavoursome and enticing meals that they enjoy. With this focus on older people’s rights, we’re working to raise the standard of food, nutrition and dining across the aged care sector through the:
- Maggie Beer Foundation’s free training for chefs and cooks
- new Aged Care Quality Standard 6: Food and nutrition, to be introduced with the new Aged Care Act on 1 November 2025.
Our new video stories are told from the perspectives of residents, chefs and managers. They show how training is helping aged care homes make lasting changes to:
- serve more delicious and enticing meals
- increase meal nutrition
- seek residents’ feedback on menus
- offer more choice and variety of food and drinks
- better meet residents’ dining needs and preferences.
Aged care chefs and cooks from anywhere in Australia can sign up to the training. Options include:
- 3-week hybrid courses delivered by qualified chef trainers plus a menu appraisal
- a series of online modules on improving flavour, nutrition and meeting the needs and preferences of older people.
More information
Find information for:
- aged care residents, their families and carers, including how to raise food concerns
- people considering aged care, including how to compare the food at aged care homes
- aged care providers and workers, including free support and training information.