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Advances in medicine have helped fight disease allowing people to live longer, albeit with a myriad of chronic medical conditions. There is no universally accepted definition of “elderly, old, or older” person, but the generally accepted age range for this cohort is over 65 years. Those over the age of 80 years are considered “very-elderly.”
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Yerram, P. (2016). Unplanned Start of Hemodialysis and Transition to Community. In: Misra, M. (eds) Dialysis in Older Adults. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3320-4_15
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