Meet ARIIA Champion Matt, who is reshaping aged care.
Matt, General Manager Integrated Care at Barossa Village, identified the need to enhance care around delirium and encouraged Clinical Nurse Jamie Lee to take part in the ARIIA Innovator Training Program (ITP) to explore ways of providing the best care around delirium management.
Matt and Jamie Lee are now spearheading a project to improve clinical practice around delirium by developing a new risk assessment tool to strengthen clinical reasoning and empower staff to reduce the impact of delirium in the aged care facility and for the people who are potentially living with it.
To undergo the development of such a complex tool, ARIIA connected Matt with Professor Victoria Traynor from the University of Wollongong to bring her expertise to the project. The project is now well underway to deliver better outcomes for people living with delirium.
