{"id":200299,"date":"2024-11-27T19:28:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/for-some-older-adults-with-kidney-failure-dialysis-may-not-be-the-best-option"},"modified":"2024-11-27T19:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:28:31","slug":"for-some-older-adults-with-kidney-failure-dialysis-may-not-be-the-best-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/for-some-older-adults-with-kidney-failure-dialysis-may-not-be-the-best-option","title":{"rendered":"For some older adults with kidney failure, dialysis may not be the best option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-some-older-adults-with-kidney-failure-dialysis-may-not-be-the-best-option2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Stanford Medicine-led study found that frail older patients who waited to start dialysis died only nine days earlier on average \u2014 and spent more time at home \u2014 than those who began treatment immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Stanford Medicine-led study found that frail older patients who waited to start dialysis died only nine days earlier on average \u2014 and spent more time at home \u2014 than those who began treatment immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}