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This 6-part video series describes the kidney transplant process. Health care providers will share their knowledge, and people living with kidney disease will share their experiences. It is our hope that these videos will help you learn what you can do to have a successful transplant.

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Patient Education Series: Living Liver Donation & Transplantation

This is the second of a quarterly patient education series presented in collaboration with the Canadian Liver Foundation and the Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN. The series address your questions about liver transplantation. Session 1 focuses on the clinical aspects of liver disease.

In this sessi…

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Patients Seeking Donors

Are you looking for a living kidney donor, or know someone who is?

The Patients Seeking Donors initiative aims to help kidney patients spread awareness of their need for a living donor kidney transplant and potentially match eligible living kidney donors with Canadians in need of life-saving trans…

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Kidney Wellness Hub

The Kidney Foundation's Kidney Wellness Hub was developed to support the health and well-being of kidney patients and their support networks. It was designed to meet kidney families wherever they are on their kidney journey, and it’s an online site that members of the kidney community say serves a …

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Step-by-Step Resources for Living Donor Kidney Transplants

BC Renal and BC Transplant have launched matching web pages with newly developed step-by-step resources for living donor kidney transplants.
 
The resources are aimed at people facing kidney failure who would like to learn more about kidney transplants and how to try to find a living donor. Infor…
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Transplant Ambassador Program

Transplant Ambassadors are either kidney donors or transplant recipients who volunteer for shifts in clinics to connect with patients at all stages of the kidney journey prior to transplant.  During the pandemic, they are available by phone, email or conference call.
 
The site includes Top Ten T…
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Finding a Living Donor: Peer-Led Workshop for Kidney and Liver Transplant Candidates and Advocates

Finding a Living Donor is a practical, interactive, peer-led online workshop for kidney and liver transplant candidates and advocates presented during Living Donation Week 2021. Hosted by UHN

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Kidney One on One

The Kidney Foundation of Canada has partnered with Alberta Kidney Care – North (AKC-N)  and the University of Alberta to launch the Kidney One on One Program in Northern Alberta, designed to help patients adapt to their new realities.  This initiative will initially be offered within the University…

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Explore Transplant Ontario - Transplant and Living Donation

Explore Transplant Ontario is an education program designed for Ontarians with kidney failure, along with their families, friends, potential living donors and healthcare providers. Its purpose is to explain the available kidney transplant options so that those living with kidney failure can make we…

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What is Living Kidney Donation?

Living kidney donation information and learning resources: Being informed is a vital process in becoming a living kidney donor. This learning resource centre provides information about how living donation works, educational programs that help educate donors and transplant candidates, stories that s…

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International The Living Donation Storytelling Project

The Living Donation Storytelling Project is a one-of-a-kind digital library of video stories, recorded by real people, sharing their living donor kidney transplant experiences.

Canadian Blood Services has partnered with Dr. Amy Waterman and her team at the Transplant Research and Education Centre …

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BC Transplant: Patient Education Webinars

Kidney Transplant & Finding a Living Donor Recorded Session

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The Living Donor Kidney Transplant Process

The English version of the document can be found by clicking 'Visit Resource' below
 
This document is also available in other languages:
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Alberta Health Services: Organ, Tissue and Eye Donation

Organ and tissue donation services in Alberta are provided using a collaborative approach by specialized programs located within Edmonton and Calgary.
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Program for Reimbursing Expenses of Living Organ Donors (PRELOD)

Program for Reimbursing Expenses of Living Organ Donors covers travel, parking, transit, meals, accommodation, and a loss of income subsidy.  
For details contact prelod@giftoflife.on.ca or call 1.888.9.PRELOD (416.619.2342).
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The Reimbursement Program for Living Donors

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Living Kidney Donation Handbook

This booklet provides information about the living kidney donation program at London Health Sciences Centre.  It includes the following chapters:
 
  • Overview
  • Treatment options
  • Where to start
  • Next stage of testing
  • Making the decision
  • Surgical Process
  • Life after don…
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Organ Donation: The Gift of Life

This resource contains the following topics:

  • Transplant Process
  • Before Your Transplant
  • Living with a Transplant
  • After Your Transplant
  • Being a Liver Donor
  • Liver Transplant Resource Library
     
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Living Kidney Donor Program

Click below to learn more about the Living Kidney Donor Program

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