KidneyViews
Welcome to the non-profit Medical Education Institute's Home Dialysis Central blogspot! This page is an umbrella under which Home Dialysis Central staff and guests can share their perspectives about home therapies and what we need to do to raise their profile and enable more people to use them. We'd like your comments as well! Bookmark our site and like us on Facebook! Help us tell the world about home dialysis.
We have a "lifestyle bible" for sale that can help you learn about dialysis options. Help, I Need Dialysis! We also have prepared some slideshows on how to have a good future with kidney disease.
Part 2: Facing Your Biggest Life Challenges - 8 Steps to Recovery
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A focus on the present will aid you in your recovery and enrich your life in ways you haven’t felt before.
Published on 03/07/2019 by Jeff Parke
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Part 1: Facing Your Biggest Life Challenges - 8 Steps to Recovery
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In this 2-part guide, I will offer eight steps to get you going down your personal path of recovery.
Published on 02/28/2019 by Jeff Parke
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Home Dialysis “Support Services”: Is It an Inspection or a Visit?
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I was asked to write a blog about home inspections. This was not a term I’d ever heard before,
Published on 02/21/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Valentine’s Day View from the Chair: Finding Love on Dialysis
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“Personal question,” challenged a FB group member. “How many of you met your significant other while on dialysis already?
Published on 02/14/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Conservative Management in End-stage Renal Disease: A Tale of Two Countries
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A recent study showed that healthcare providers have limited understanding of what patients want from a conservative kidney management (CKM) program
Published on 02/07/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education Issues for patients and professonals,
Home Dialysis, Vocational Rehabilitation, and Law School
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I spoke with my Social Worker about programs to help train me to return to work,
Published on 01/31/2019 by Charles Dimsdale
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education Issues for patients and professonals,
Loss of a Home Dialysis Icon – Goodbye, Bill Peckham
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It’s hard to even fathom the loss of a dialysis advocate as passionate and articulate as my friend Bill Peckham
Published on 01/24/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Patient Education: Why Do So Few CKD Patients Receive Patient Education
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There is no question about the benefits of CKD education. Research has consistently reported benefits including but not limited to:
Published on 01/17/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
It IS a Laughing Matter: Using Humor to Cope with Kidney Disease and Dialysis
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there is now therapy called Humor, and it is both complementary and becoming mainstream medicine.
Published on 01/10/2019 by Jeff Parke
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Explained: The Value of Residual Kidney Function to Dialysis
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few (if any) studies have looked at the contribution residual renal function makes (if any) to electrolyte regulation in dialysis patients!
Published on 01/03/2019 by Dr. John Agar