Abstract
Although end-stage renal disease and its treatments causes a variety of physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual burden for both patients and families, few studies estimated it. The current study aimed to evaluate the frequency of physical, and Psychosocial disorders in ESRF elderly patients. It's a descriptive cross-sectional study carried out in Dialysis units of El-Minia City in Egypt. One hundred and fifty-two patients shared in the study. It was found that 80.3% of the sample can't do an activity of daily living without assistance, 77.6% had shortness of breath, 40% had general weakness and 23% had general edema. Regarding psychosocial status, 77.6% of patients prefer isolation, 80% of them were sad and 46% refused communication with the health team. There are negative relations noted between duration of end stage renal failure disease and acceptance of disease while positive relation noted between duration of end stage renal failure and the following, isolation, social family relation, and feeling of weakness. Also, There are positive relations between duration of dialysis sessions and both isolation and weakness. Elderly patients with end stage renal failure were suffering from major physical and psychological disturbances related to aging, chronic diseases and on the other hand failure of disease coping. So, those fragile categories needs more specific programs for learning them and their families different aspect of coping mechanisms for dealing with physical and psychosocial burden associated with renal failure.