Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to ethical case analysis -- 1 Changing patterns of renal replacement therapy -- 2 The concept of supportive care for the renal patient -- 3 Planning a renal palliative care programme and its components -- 4 Advance care planning in patients with end-stage renal disease -- 5 What determines a good outcome? The selection of patients for renal replacement therapy -- 6 Health-related quality of life and the patient with chronic kidney disease -- 7 Symptoms in renal disease -- their epidemiology, assessment, and management -- 8 Management of pain in renal failure -- 9 Psychological and psychiatric considerations in patients with advanced renal disease -- 10 Spiritual care of the renal patient -- 11 Support of the home-dialysis patient -- 12 Initiation, withdrawal, and withholding of dialysis -- 12.1 Clinical -- 12.2 Communicating with patients and family -- 13 Conservative management of end-stage renal disease -- 14 End-stage renal disease in the older person -- 15 Death and end-of-life care in advanced kidney disease -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.