Meeting Four: Deciding What to Do

The fourth and final meeting helps patients develop an action plan that is right for them. This meeting assesses the patient’s interest in living donation and whether the patient wishes to pursue transplant, allows the patient to brainstorm about living donation, recaps transplant related themes and helps the patient create a transplant action plan.

Educational Materials:
 

Video 4:
Deciding What to Do: Recipients and donors discuss their transplant journey, positive and hopeful reminders, and offer insights into how family, friends and health professionals can be helpful.
 

Brochures: 

• Explore Transplant: A Guide for Family & Friends: Suggests ways that family members can support and get involved to help the patient learn and pursue transplantation.                

• How to Find a Living Donor: Discusses how kidney patients find donors and suggests ways to start the process.
   

Fact Sheet:
Transplant Resources: Lists the Explore Transplant helpline and national transplant resources.
 

Explore Transplant Patient Action Plan