Advance planning records what you would want if you could not say so at the time — and it makes decisions easier for your family.
What to know
- Consider documenting your wishes about hospitalisation, resuscitation and continuing or stopping dialysis.
- Nominate someone you trust to speak for you, and tell them what you would want.
- Legal frameworks for advance directives differ across jurisdictions — take UAE-specific advice.
- Review your wishes periodically; they legitimately change over time.
- These conversations are difficult but they reliably reduce distress later.
Talk to your care team
This topic is part of Patient Rights, Advocacy & Resources, one of ten modules in the Trivita Learning Hub. If anything here contradicts what your own nephrologist or dialysis nurse has told you, follow your care team — they know your prescription, your access and your history.
Trivita's dialysis nurses answer our care line 24 hours a day on 055 242 1070, including for people who are not yet our patients.
Education, not medical advice. This page explains home hemodialysis in general terms for patients and care partners in the UAE. It is reviewed by Trivita's Medical Director but cannot account for your individual circumstances. Never change a prescription, medication or technique based on this page alone.