NEW MEI Book - My Kidney Life: A New Direction

A companion to My Kidney Life Plan, this new, full-color, 160-page illustrated book by Dori Schatell, MS; Dr. John Agar, Dr. George Coritsidis, and Erich Weinhandl, PhD, explains the emotional blow of a kidney failure diagnosis and offers ways to cope; makes the ESKD self-management job explicit—so patients can learn to produce their own best health outcomes; and outlines kidneys, kidney failure, ALL types of dialysis, transplant (recipients and donors), active medical management, and resources. Single copies are $9.95; contact Kristi for bulk pricing: sales@mei.org.

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!

• The Human Cost of Failing to Match Dialysis Modalities to Patient Values
  06/13 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• Improving Access to Home Dialysis: My Testimony
  06/06 – Erich Ditschman
• Lessons from Across the Top 9 KidneyViews Blog Posts
  05/30 – Dr. John Agar
• The Game-Changing Conversation That Transformed My Dialysis Experience: And How It Could Change Yours, Too
  05/16 – Susan Emeny
• H.R. 8075: Improving Access to Home Dialysis Act – Statement of Bell Maddux, Home Dialysis Patient
  05/09 – Bell Maddux

Pipeline Technology

• Byonyks X1: a New, Small, Portable APD Machine

Living Well with Home Treatments

• Your Voice Matters: Talking With Your Dialysis Team
• Have Portable Dialysis Machine Will Travel
• Myths & Barriers to Home Dialysis WebEx on Thursday, July 11 from 2-3pm ET
• Watch PD Patient Kristen Rice Share Her Supply Storage and Machine Set-up
• Explore Three Innovative Types of Dialysis in a Podcast

Industry Updates

• Liberty Dialysis Hawaii Opens New Home HD Training Center in O’ahu, HI
• Baxter Launches MyPD Digital Management App in Korea
• New, Validated Survey of Home Dialysis Patients’ Experience of Care
• PD and Home HD Sessions and Posters from the 2024 NKF Spring Clinicals

Advocacy for Better Dialysis

• Bill Would Expand Medigap Access for Dialysis Patients if Passed

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

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

• Management of PD Anemia in Japan
• Personalized PD Prescriptions
• IM-HOME Study Examines Barriers to Home Dialysis
• Nursing Home Frequent Dialysis May Get People Home Sooner
• An Integrated Care Model Supports Home Dialysis
• Home HD, Self-cannulation, and Survival

Featured Link: New MEI Resources to Match Patient Values with Treatment Options

Each treatment option chapter in our new My Kidney Life: A New Direction book links via a QR code to additional content about each of the 23 values in My Kidney Life Plan in the form of mobile-friendly e-classes. These work on computers, tablets, and—most importantly, since these are what most patients have access to—smartphones. References are coming soon; watch the space!