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Episode 115 Resources: Living Well with Kidney Disease

Release Date: Wednesday – March 1, 2023
Archive Episode 115: Living Well with Kidney Disease

Description: In recognition of National Kidney Month in March, learn about kidney disease and your health, kidney transplants, and kidney donors. Chronic kidney disease affects nearly 15% of the U.S. population. In 2022, a record 24,669 life-saving kidney transplants were performed. Kidney disease and other related health conditions like high blood pressure or diabetes can be disabilities that affect your rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Join us for this informative episode about living well with kidney disease and the rights of kidney patients and kidney donors under the ADA and other laws.

Guest: Dr. Frita McRae Fisher, M.D., Physician and Nephrologist with Midtown Nephrology, P.C., in Atlanta, Georgia. Member of the Georgia National Kidney Foundation Board of Directors.
Host: Dan Kessler, Interim Executive Director for the Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL)
Moderator: Barry Whaley, Project Director of the Southeast ADA Center

Contents

Featured in This Episode
Kidney Disease and Your Health
Life After a Kidney Transplant
Learn about Kidney Donation
Legal Rights of Persons with Kidney Disease and Kidney Donors
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Research

Kidney Disease and Your Health

Note: Resources (website links) for this episode come from the National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), except where another source is listed.

Life After a Kidney Transplant

Learn about Kidney Donation

Employment Rights

Right to Health Care

Living Donor Laws

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Research