Consensus Meeting
A 6-hour-long hybrid Consensus Conference (in-person/ZOOM)
“Living Well with Kidney Disease – Effective Symptom Management”, Consensus Conference,
At the Hilton Hawaiian Village, in Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, HI,
Healthcare professionals, healthcare providers, Kidney patients and other stakeholders joined the conference
The consensus conference is organized by the International Federation of Kidney Foundations – World Kidney Alliance (IFKF-WKA) www.IFKF.org in collaboration with the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii (NKF-HI) www.KidneyHI.org
The topics of the presentations are related to the following broad themes:
- Living Well with Kidney Disease
- Effective Symptom Management to Improve Quality of Life
- Treating Pruritis, Fatigue, Pain, Sleep and Mental Health
- Expanding Preservative Management and Home Dialysis Therapies
- Empowering Patients and Care-Partners ·Kidney Patients Speak: Why Managing Unpleasant Symptoms Matters to Kidney Patients
- Health Care Providers and Experts for Symptom Management in Kidney Disease: Pruritus and Related Unpleasant Symptoms
- Kidney Patients Speak: Kidney Patients’ Expectations from Management of their Unpleasant Symptoms
- Health Care Providers and Experts for Symptom Management in Kidney Disease: Symptom Clusters, Patient-Centered Outcomes, and Quality of Life in Chronic Kidney Disease
- Kidney Foundation and Kidney Platforms Speak: How to Make Kidney Platform More Patient-Centered
- Matters Relevant to Kidney Care, Anxiety and Stigmas of Kidney Disease and the Words “End-Stage” and “Failure”