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Please bookmark the page and check back often. Return to Contents for December 2000 5. In addition, the patients' quality of life was similar to the elderly not on dialysis. One of the authors of the report, Dr. Charles Normand, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says the results should lead to an examination of the practice of rationing dialysis based on age. Researchers followed 221 people aged 70 and older who were on dialysis due to chronic renal failure.