Living Well With Kidney Disease by Patient and Carepartner Empowerment: Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere

CKD, its associated symptoms, and its treatment, including medications, dietary and fluid restrictions, and kidney replacement therapy can disrupt and constrain daily living, and impair the overall quality of life of patients and their family members. Consequently, this can also impact treatment satisfaction and clinical outcomes.1 Despite this, the past several decades have seen limited improvement in the quality of life of people with CKD.1 To advance the research, practice, and policy, there is an increasing recognition of the need to identify and address patient priorities, values, and goals.