Comment on MEI’s New My Kidney Life Plan Treatment Matcher!

It was always our intent to build a person-centered tool to help people match dialysis, transplant, and active medical management (comfort care) to their values and lifestyle. In our first effort, My Life, My Dialysis Choice, we were only able to include dialysis. Our completely updated new tool has ALL of the options. Please try it—and use the orange comment button at the bottom of each page to share your thoughts!

Kidney Views Blog Topics: Join us for our weekly home dialysis blog. Click here to subscribe to new post alerts. Tell us what YOU think—we welcome comments and guest blog posts!

• Chronic Disease Patients: Send These Dos and Don'ts to Your Visitors When You Are Admitted
  07/07 – Kamal Shah
• How to Advise Your Pet Lovers on Home Dialysis
  06/29 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
• View from the Chair: Dialyzors' Experiences of Options Education
  06/23 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• Permission to Thrive—Part 6: Manage Your Emotions & Anxiety
  06/16 – April McGraw, RN, CNN

Pipeline Technology

• Medical Device Transforms Fluid Removal in Kidney Care

Home Dialysis in the News

• Key To Long-term Success On Home Dialysis
• Racial Disparities in Kidney Failure Treatment Greatest in Ages 22-44

Living Well with Home Treatments

• Home Dialysis Is Becoming More Popular in Hawaii

Industry Updates

• Outset Halts Tablo Sales for Home Use Pending FDA Review of New Features

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

Each month, we gather recent research abstracts about home dialysis. Visit our Journal Watch to learn more:

• Prospective Cohort Study of Urgent-start APD
• Fatigue at PD Start Linked with Higher Mortality
• Rapid Differentiation of PD Peritonitis Causes
• Safety and Efficacy of Wearable PD
• Spiritual Well-being and PD Outcomes
• Structured CKD Education More Than Tripled Uptake of Home Therapies
• Frequent HD Shortens Recovery Time—Even in Nursing Homes
• Home Dialysis Associated with Higher Patient Activation

Featured Link: Watch our Emergency Planning Webinar for Home Dialysis.

On Wednesday, June 29, we hosted a joint live session with members of the Home Dialysis Central Facebook Discussion group and Zoom webinar for non-members. Our guests, Martine Zaun, who does home HD, Jessie Rodriguez, who does PD, and Lyndsay Crowson, a home dialysis nurse had a lively talk about how to get ready for emergencies.

You can watch it here!