A Review of Supportive Care for Older People with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease


 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 focussing 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. Recognising 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 prioritise 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.