Dismal Rehabilitation in Geriatric Inner-city Hemodialysis Patients

Abstract

Maintenance hemodialysis does not return inner-city elderly patients to their predialysis level of functioning. Few elderly, diabetic hemodialysis patients conduct any substantive portion of their lives outside their homes. For nondiabetic patients, the modified Karnofsky score of whites (70.4 +/- 11.9) and blacks (66.5 +/- 15.3), though low, was equivalent (P < .4).