The aim of ARIA - which provides targeted, streamlined, multidisciplinary care for older patients - is to provide truly integrated care, improving patient outcomes by providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
A specialist-led multidisciplinary team actively case-finds older patients in emergency departments for admission to the ARIA unit, with priority assessment, investigation and integrated care planning.
Amongst 370 included patients (185 in each group), age, sex, culturally and linguistically diverse background, domicile, frailty and co-morbidity were similar. ARIA patients had shorter hospital length-of-stay compared to non-ARIA.
ARIA’s targeted, integrated, multidisciplinary approach to front line aged care services may be associated with improved outcomes such as length-of-stay.
