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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (7617)7/19/2009 6:50:52 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
All dialysis patients over the age of 50 were sent a letter that had the following statement regarding the lack of treatment available: "We recommend you put your affairs in order."

Apparently quite a few older kidney disease patients in the U.K. are not required to "put their affairs in order"

See: ageing.oxfordjournals.org

In the past, at least in the UK, dialysis tended to be restricted to younger patients. This is no longer the case and the median age for starting dialysis in the UK is now 65 years, which is similar to other western countries, including the USA and Japan.
About 7% of all patients starting dialysis in the UK in 2003 were over 80 years old (13% in the USA). There are approximately 2,500 dialysis patients over 80 years old per million population over 80 years old in the UK. In the USA, this prevalence rate over 80 years was 3,400 [1, 2].
The prevalence rate for dialysis in both the UK and
USA peak at around 75 years.

Also see: age-net.co.uk

CURRENT SITUATION IN THE UK

Patients suffering from Established Renal Failure have three options to choose from when faced with making their treatment choice: transplant, hospital-based dialysis or home-based dialysis.

41,776 people in the UK now receive some form of Renal Replacement Therapy according to the most recent Renal Registry Report. But the Registry also reveals that just 22% of dialysis patients now receive their treatment at home with Peritoneal Dialysis (PD), and the discrepancy widens depending on your age or even where you live.

Over 65's account for nearly half of all patients currently on dialysis but they are only half as likely as younger patients (18% to 36%) to access a home based treatment such as PD.
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