Aged Care Queensland is the Queensland peak body for the providers of aged and community care and retirement services in that State. Those providers are from both the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors. ACQ’s membership includes churches, charitable and indigenous organisations, private and public companies and ethnic groups. All are united in a common concern to provide aged, community and retirement services of excellence. Each member of ACQ shall at all times aspire to provide services which will enable older Queenslanders to enjoy the maximum quality of life they are capable of achieving. To this end ACQ will provide services which seek to:

• Enhance each person’s autonomy and self-actualisation in his or her every day life
• Maximise each person’s quality of life as they define it
• Offer the best and most appropriate facilities and/or care for each person’s circumstances
• Give all people we serve and their families opportunity to provide input into the planning and provision of services within the limits of our ability
• Give all people we serve and their families opportunities to voice grievances without fear of reprisal
• Create an environment in which each person can live and die with dignity