Comparison of Dietary Compliance and Dietary Knowledge Between Older and Younger Korean Hemodialysis Patients

The OHPs were generally less knowledgeable and more compliant, and had a lower appetite and a higher mortality than the YHPs. Therefore, the current application of the same dietary education to both OHPs and YHPs may be problematic. Instead, developing age-specific strategies to increase dietary knowledge and nutritional intake is urgently needed to increase the survival rate of Korean hemodialysis patients.