Nutrition in the Elderly with Renal Disease

Elderly patients affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are rapidly increasing and represent the major part of renal patients. Elderly renal patients are frail and more susceptible to impair the nutritional status. Conversely, nutritional interventions represent a major part of the comprehensive therapeutic strategies either in predialysis or dialysis phase of the disease, and a safe balance between benefits and harms of nutritional treatment is certainly a challenge.