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Chronic kidney disease is common in the elderly and the prevalence increases with age. The ageing of the dialysis population has characteristics that cannot be extrapolated to the general population. This pathology is also a public health challenge with important social and economic implications. Nephrological nurses are often the first professionals to detect numerous social, relational, and even economic problems presented by people on dialysis. Ageism is one of the emerging challenges that nephrology nurses will have to face in their daily practice. To do so, we will need to train, raise awareness, educate ourselves and others, tasks that are not alien to us and for which we will need to use the dissemination resources at our disposal to accompany society in the process of making visible, denouncing, and transforming a discrimination that affects us all. Writing this editorial to discuss ageism is an example of how nephrology nurses echo the need to care not only for the technical aspects, but to lead the changes necessary to live and care in a just and caring society.
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References
Informe Mundial sobre el edadismo. Organización Mundial de la Salud. 2021 [consultado 22 Feb 2022]. Disponible en: https://www.who.int/es/teams/social-determinants-of-health/demographic-change-and-healthy-ageing/combatting-ageism/global-report-on-ageism.
Bravo-Segal S, Villar F. La representación de los mayores en los medios durante la pandemia COVID-19: ¿hacia un refuerzo del edadismo? Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol. 2020;55(5):266-71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regg.2020.06.002
Documento Marco sobre Enfermedad Renal Crónica (ERC) dentro de la Estrategia de Abordaje a la Cronicidad en el SNS. Ministerio de Sanidad Servicios Sociales e Igualdad. 2015 [consultado 22 Feb 2022]. Disponible en: https://www.sanidad.gob.es/organizacion/sns/planCalidadSNS/pdf/Enfermedad_Renal_Cronica_2015.pdf.
Guilloteau S, Lobbedez T, Guillouët S, Verger C, Ficheux M, Lanot A, et al. Impact of Assisted Peritoneal Dialysis Modality on Outcomes: A Cohort Study of the French Language Peritoneal Dialysis Registry. Am J Nephrol. 2018;48(6):425-33. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000494664
García-Soler A, Castejón P, Marsillas S, Del Barrio E, Thompson L, Díaz-Veiga P. Ageism and COVID-19: Study on social inequality through opinions and attitudes about older people in the coronavirus crisis in Spain. LTCcovid.org, International Long-Term Care Policy Network, CPEC-LSE, 2020. [consultado 22 Feb 2022]. Disponible en: https://ltccovid.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/COVID-and-ageism-an-attitudes-survey-in-Spain.pdf.