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- - Supportive care (SC) takes a person-centered approach to managing advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), focusing on engaging patients and their caregivers in decisions about their care from the beginning.
- - Instead of concentrating solely on treating the disease, SC includes a variety of supportive interventions that aim to enhance the patient's overall quality of life, especially for older individuals with CKD who often value quality of life more than mere survival.
- - The review highlights the importance of SC as a complementary strategy to traditional disease-specific treatments for managing advanced CKD among older patients, who often face challenges like frailty and multiple health issues.
Article Abstract
Supportive care (SC) is a multidimensional and person-centred approach to managing advanced CKD that engages the person and their caregivers in shared decision making from the outset. Rather than focusing on disease-specific therapies, SC is a collection of adjuvant interventions and adaptations to conventional treatments that can be used to improve the individual's quality of life. Recognizing that frailty, multi-morbidity and polypharmacy are more common among older people with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) and that people in this group tend to prioritize quality of life over survival as a goal of care, SC represents an important adjunct to disease-specific therapies in CKD management. This review provides an overview of SC in the older person with advanced CKD.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10061438 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfac256 | DOI Listing |
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