Comorbidities, Hospitalization, and Living Status of Dialysis Patients Over 80 Years.

Background: An increasing number of patients start dialysis when they are over 80 years or reaches their eighties on dialysis. The burden of dialysis can affect their quality of life.

Methods: Clinical and social data of all patients aged 80 years or older who underwent chronic dialysis treatment in a single center were analyzed.

Hemodialysis in patients over 80 years.

Background: In Germany, every fifth patient starting dialysis is now 80 years of age or older. The question that is currently relevant is not whether we have to treat patients who are older than 80. Rather the question now is how to treat this elderly group of patients.