Our goals in this review are to describe what is known about the prevalence and clinical implications of non–dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease in the elderly and to discuss some of the most common challenges to managing older patients with chronic kidney disease.
⁎Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
†Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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