The Impact of Care Partners on the Mobility of Older Adults Receiving Hemodialysis

Barriers and Facilitators to Exercise in Older Adults Awaiting Kidney Transplantation and Their Care Partners

“… 69 Previous studies of care partners have focused largely on the enormous burden of care 34 , 35 , 36 that many care partners of patients treated with dialysis report, though a recent qualitative study directly explored the impact of care partners on mobility for patients receiving hemodialysis. 70 Our study adds further nuance to this complicated issue by directly representing care partner perspectives on barriers and facilitators to promoting exercise and activity for their older patients in the context of prehabilitation before kidney transplantation. Of particular note is the amount of barriers to exercise that patients and care partners share, and their shared interest in joint participation in home-based exercise programs, assuming appropriate structure and guidance are provided.…”