Age at Dialysis Initiation
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Generated: 2026-09-21 23:14
Total patients
612
Peak group
60-69 y
147 patients (24%)
Started <40 y
17.5 %
107 patients
Started ≥65 y
20.8 %
127 patients
Distribution by age group
Share of total
Automatic analysis
Largest group: 60-69 years — 147 patients (24% of the programme).
Suggested action: Match dietitian, nursing and social-work capacity to this dominant cohort.
17.5% of patients started dialysis before age 40 — a meaningful early-onset burden (107 patients).
Suggested action: Review causes in this cohort; consider family screening and earlier nephrology referral for at-risk relatives.
Elderly burden (20.8%) is below the level that usually requires dedicated geriatric planning.
Suggested action: Continue current care model.
Working-age core (40–69) accounts for 61.8% of the programme (378 patients).
Suggested action: Protect access patency and transplant workup in this group — they carry the longest dialysis-years and highest rehabilitation potential.
What this parameter means
The age of a patient when they begin maintenance dialysis. One value per patient, fixed forever. It describes the case-mix of your programme and the epidemiology of end-stage kidney disease in your catchment area.
Why it matters
- Young (<40): lifetime on dialysis → transplant priority, access preservation, psychosocial support, fertility counselling.
- 40–69: working-age core → rehabilitation, employment support, transplant workup.
- 65+: frailty, comorbidity, falls, polypharmacy → geriatric pathway and shared decision-making (including conservative care).
- Distribution shape tells you where to invest: paediatric transition, adult prevention, or elderly care.
Action plan — review every 6 months
- Profile the under-40 cohort (107 patients). Add aetiology, referral source and eGFR at first nephrology contact — this is the highest-yield prevention target.
- Audit late referral. Count patients who started dialysis within 90 days of first nephrology contact — that is your preventable "crash-landing" rate.
- Primary-care screening. Work with GPs on annual eGFR + urine ACR for diabetics and hypertensives; add family screening for hereditary disease.
- Geriatric pathway. With 127 patients 65+, formalise geriatric assessment, falls prevention, advance-care planning and a documented conservative-kidney-management option.
- Plan capacity by age mix. Young patients need decades of access planning and transplant workup; elderly patients need more beds, transport and social support per session.
- Protect the data. Reject rows without DOB or SOT at data entry so this page stays reliable.
- Benchmark. Compare your mean and median age at initiation with your national renal registry once a year.
Distribution table
| Age group | Patients | % | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| <20 | 18 | 2.9% | |
| 21-24 | 17 | 2.8% | |
| 25-29 | 22 | 3.6% | |
| 30-34 | 24 | 3.9% | |
| 35-39 | 26 | 4.2% | |
| 40-49 | 87 | 14.2% | |
| 50-59 | 144 | 23.5% | |
| 60-69 | 147 | 24% | |
| 70-79 | 94 | 15.4% | |
| 80+ | 33 | 5.4% | |
| Total | 612 | 100% |