Patient Resources & Useful Links

Healthy Eating with Kidney Disease

Healthy Kidney Cooking – Elisha Archie

The foundation recognizes the importance of nutrition in patients affected with or at risk of chronic kidney disease. Foundation is actively involved in promoting education and developing innovative ways to improve health literacy in better food choices.

DaVita Kidney Care – Cookbook

Today’s Kidney Diet Cookbooks. Change up your mealtime routine! Get access to all of DaVita’s free kidney diet cookbooks, recipes and tips when you register for a myDaVita account.

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Pharmacists are a crucial part of a patient’s health care team and can support early detection and improve disease management to slow progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Pharmacists can recognize potential drug interactions, decipher the clinical relevance of known interactions, and develop monitoring plans based on pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic characteristics of an individual agent.

Educational Links

Medical Education Institute
The Medical Education Institute (MEI) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) dedicated to helping people with chronic diseases learn to manage and improve their health.
Kidney School

People with kidney disease can live long and live well. Learn about your role in helping yourself or your loved one to stay as healthy as possible in this introduction to Kidney School.

Life Options

Life Options is a program of research, research-based education, and outreach founded in 1993 to help people live long and live well with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Retire Guide

RetireGuide is a resource that is dedicated to providing useful information to help older adults navigate healthcare during their retirement years and fulfill their other retirement goals.

Dialysis

Home Dialysis

1Home Dialysis Central is a one-stop, online source of up-to-date, unbiased information about home dialysis—in all its forms—for people with kidney disease, their families, and the healthcare professionals who provide kidney disease care.

My Dialysis Choice

2If your kidneys fail, dialysis can save your life. But, dialysis is not just a medical treatment. It can also affect every aspect of your lifestyle. This tool will help you choose the right treatment for you so you can feel your best and live the way you want to.

Renal and care support

Renal Support Network

Renal Support Network (RSN) empowers people who have kidney disease to become knowledgeable about their illness, proactive in their care, hopeful about their future and make friendships that last a lifetime.

Dialysis Support Group

Dialysis is a type of renal replacement therapy which is used to provide a replacement for lost kidney function due to renal failure and Daily Strength is an online database of support groups for a variety of circumstances.

Health Topics

National Kidney Foundation

American Association of Kidney patients

Senior Topics

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