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Gerokomos

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Abstract

VILLAGRASA-ALCAINE, Ignacio  and  ROMANOS-CALVO, Beatriz. Quality of life in the oldest person with chronic renal failure. Gerokomos [online]. 2022, vol.33, n.4, pp.245-250.  Epub July 24, 2023. ISSN 1134-928X.

Objectives:

Know the quality of life, the functional, psychological and cognitive capacity of people over 60 years of age with chronic renal impairment depending on the type of treatment used for this problem.

Methodology:

A systematic search for literature was carried out from January 1, 2014 to April 29, 2020 using the PubMed, ProQuest, ScienceDirect and Scopus databases and, following the methodology proposed in Preferred Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA).

Results:

Quality of life spans multiple dimensions, and while there is a variety of instruments to measure it, similar but disparate results are obtained, which does not facilitate universal impact results. Women on hemodialysis have worse results in physical and psychological mastery. There is no conclusive data on improving or worsening quality of life through the years. Conservative treatment appears to be an alternative that yields better quality-of-life outcomes over therapies such as dialysis, but not when it comes to survival rate at ages 70-80.

Conclusions:

It would be appropriate to measure quality of life in a standardized way, at the beginning of treatment, in the same way as other biological variables, and thus be able to design strategies and/or interventions that can avoid complications.

Keywords : Quality of life; renal replacement therapy; conservative treatment; hemodialysis; peritoneal dialysis; elderly.

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