Nursing and Health Care

Aim: This study explores staff and resident perceptions of how choice and decision-making is facilitated for people living in residential aged care in Australia. The study focusses on how facilitation of choice related to daily living tasks may aid in improving quality of life for people living in aged residential care.

Background: The ability to make choices and decisions is a concept we all take for granted. However, this may not be the reality for some people living in residential aged care in Australia (McCabe et al., 2021) despite the introduction of the new quality and safety standards post 1 July 2019, of which choice is the foundation standard (Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, 2021).