Dialysis in older adults (IMAGE)

Stanford Medicine

Dialysis in older adults

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For older adults with complex health problems, immediately starting dialysis when their kidney function falls below a standard threshold gives them about a week more of life but two more weeks in a hospital or care home, Stanford Medicine-led research has found.

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Emily Moskal/Stanford Medicine

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