Living well with kidney disease by patient and care-partner empowerment: Kidney health for everyone everywhere.

Living well with kidney disease by patient and care-partner empowerment: Kidney health for everyone everywhere. Clin Nephrol. 2021 Feb 02;: Authors: Kalantar-Zadeh K, Li PK, Tantisattamo E, Kumaraswami L, Liakopoulos V, Lui SF, Ulasi I, Andreoli S, Balducci A, Dupuis S, Harris T, Hradsky A, Knight R, Kumar S, Ng M, Poidevin A, Saadi G, Tong A, For The World Kidney Day Steering Committee Abstract Living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with hardships for patients and their care-partners. Empowering patients and their care-partners, including family members or friends involved in their care, may help minimize burden and consequences of CKD-related symptoms to enable life participation. There is a need to broaden the focus on living well with kidney disease and re-engagement in life, including emphasis on patients being in control. The World Kidney Day (WKD) Joint Steering Committee has declared 2021 the year of "Living Well with Kidney Disease" in an effort to increase education and awareness on the important goal of patient empowerment and life participation. This calls for the development and implementation of validated patient-reported outcome measures to assess and address areas of life participation in routine care. It could be supported by regulatory agencies as a metric for quality care or to support labeling claims for medicines and devices. Funding agencies could establish targeted calls for research that addres...
Source: Clinical Nephrology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tags: Clin Nephrol Source Type: research