Family Focus
Family Focus Readers Share Their Stories and Poems
Welcome to the NKF's Family Focus section of the Web site devoted to articles, stories and poems submitted by Family Focus readers. Many thanks to those individuals who took the time to share their thoughts and submit them to Family Focus for publication.
Read stories | Submit your own story
Read poems | Submit your own poem
Family Focus Voices - read what others have said about important kidney disease issues
Family Focus Current Issue
- Winter 2008 (PDF - 2.1MB) "What you Should Know About Diabetes"
Family Focus Back Issues
- Winter 2007 (PDF - 1.5MB)“Quality in Dialysis“
- Summer/Fall 2006 (PDF - 1.0MB) "Disaster Preparedness"
- Spring 2006 (PDF - 1.0MB) “Life Planning”
- Winter 2006 (PDF - 1.5MB) “Family Focus Honors a Tradition of Helping People Affected by Chronic Kidney Disease”
- Fall 2005 (PDF - 932Kb) “KDOQI Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease”
- Summer 2005 (PDF - 654Kb) “Mental Health”
- Spring 2005 (PDF - 608KB) “Home Hemodialysis?”
- Winter 2005 (PDF - 1.5Mb) “Patient Advocacy”
- Fall 2004 (PDF - 3.0Mb) “What You Need to Know About Transplantation”
- Summer 2004 (PDF - 668kb) “KIDNEY DISEASE: Does it Run in Your Family?”
- Spring 2004 (PDF - 1mb) “Toolbox for Life, Part 2: Dialyze to Live, Don't Live to Dialyze”
- Winter 2004 (PDF - 1mb) “Toolbox for Life, Part 1: Your Life in the Dailysis Unit”
- Fall 2003 (PDF - 1,509kb) “Communication”
- Summer 2003 (PDF - 567kb) “Understanding Bone Disease and Lipids”
- Spring 2003 (PDF - 496kb) “The Epidemic of Diabetes”
- Winter 2003 (PDF - 636kb) “Your Turn”
- Fall 2002 (PDF - 636kb) “Choices II: Innovations”
- Summer 2002 (PDF - 876kb) “Choices I: Basics of Kidney Disease”
- Spring 2002 (PDF - 1536kb) “Chronic Kidney Disease”
- Winter 2002 (PDF - 2512kb) “High Blood Pressure and Your Kidneys”
- Fall 2001 (PDF - 357kb) “CKD and the Life Cycle”
- Summer 2001 (PDF - 837kb) “Complementary and Alternative Treatments”
- Spring 2001 (PDF - 285kb) “Dialysis Around the World”
- Winter 2001 (PDF - 449kb) “Quality of Care”
- Summer 2000 (PDF - 1212kb) “Parenting”
- Fall 1999/Winter 2000 (PDF - 1167kb) “Anniversary Double Issue, part I”
- Special DOQI Issue (PDF - 420kb)
- Health Care Team Issue (PDF - 433kb)
- Dialysis 101 Issue (PDF - 290kb)
- Focus on the Family (PDF - 490kb)
