irish Kidney Association
The Irish Kidney Association is a charitable voluntary organisation founded in 1978.
We are dedicated to meeting the needs of renal patients and their families and carers, living with and affected by end stage renal disease. To this effect we identify their needs and initiate action to establish services to satisfy these needs from our resources complementing and integrating with the mainstream health and education service available from the public authorities. These needs are spread across all aspects of life – medical, social and psychological.
We provide services both directly and act as a conduit for accessing services. The profile of the kidney patient ranges from infanthood to the elderly who are undergoing various methods of treatment – haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis (both CAPD and APD) and kidney transplantation.
Within our resources, derived from voluntary donations and fundraising, we attempt to contribute to fulfilling these needs directly to the patient and family. In the initial and interim period we implement the particular service until it is either publicly funded through us, or is integrated into an existing mainstream health, education or training service delivery area.
Please visit http://www.ika.ie/ for more information.
