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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(Supplement 2):ii60-ii62; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl138
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© The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

PD in the elderly—a challenge for the (pre)dialysis team

M. M. Ho-dac-Pannekeet

Zaans Medical Center, Department of Nephrology, Zaandam, the Netherlands

Correspondence and offprint requests to: M. M. Ho-dac-Pannekeet, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, Zaans Medical Centre, Julianaplein 58, 1502 DV Zaandam, The Netherlands. Email: mhodac{at}planet.nl

Peritoneal dialysis in elderly patients is not widely applied, although data show that PD is often preferred by elderly patients. This paper describes current restrictions to the application of PD in elderly patients and their possible solutions. This includes (contra) indications to PD as well as data on patients’ preference, quality of life specific for elderly patients and data on outcome of PD in older patients. The possibility of assisted peritoneal dialysis is offered as a challenge to the dialysis team.

Keywords: peritoneal dialysis; elderly; quality of life; assisted PD


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