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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2008 23(12):3749-3751; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn577
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The challenge for the caregiver of the patient with chronic kidney disease

Charina Gayomali1, Scoot Sutherland2 and Fredric O. Finkelstein1,3,4

1 Hospital of St Raphael, New Haven, CT 2 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 3 Yale University 4 Renal Research Institute, New Haven, CT, USA

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Fredric O. Finkelstein, 136-Sherman Avenue, New Haven, CT 06515, USA. Tel: +1-203-787-0117; Fax: +1-203-777-3559; E-mail: fof@comcast.net

Keywords: burden; caregiver; CKD; dialysis; ESRD

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The difficulty in developing effective strategies to deal with the expanding population of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is challenging the resources of the nephrology community. These challenges are greatest for the youngest and the oldest patients—the patients who are physically and/or mentally unable to provide the necessary treatment for themselves and require a caregiver to assume major responsibility for their treatment.

The elderly population is expanding and placing increasing strain on the health care system. About 40% of the U.S. population >60 years of age has CKD [1]. And, the number of elderly patients who receive ESRD treatment has been rapidly increasing [2]. Currently, nearly one in five prevalent ESRD patients are of age 65–74, and 16% are of age 75 or older. These numbers can be expected to increase further as the population ages; it is projected that the number of individuals >65 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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