ESKD Life Plan Toolkit
The End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) Life Plan is about making your healthcare goals, values and preferences known. It is important to plan ahead, and the best time to express yourself is now.
This step-by-step guide is designed to help you understand your options for taking care of your ESKD and think about what is most important to you. It includes explanations and thoughtful exercises that can help you make your Life Plan together with your care team in a way that feels right for you.
Download the ESKD Life Plan Toolkit materials and create your own Life Plan:
Full Visuals (Contains images of clinical conditions that some viewers may find unsettling. If you prefer to view the content without these images, please access the Limited Visuals version.)
Limited Visuals
Fillable Sections only
Dr. Lok, ESKD Life Plan
Dr. Schwarze, Scenario Planning
Patient Experiences with ESKD
The toolkit and videos were developed with funding by the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases (1R03DK127131), under the direction of Principal Investigator Dr. Karen Woo at the University of California, Los Angeles. Additional information about the project support is available here.