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Living Donation Discussion and News => Living Donation in the News => Topic started by: Clark on July 14, 2011, 11:44:48 AM
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http://www.stti.iupui.edu/pp07/congress11/Tamura_Sachiko.pdf
Initial Development of a Care System for
Living Donors, Based on Experience
Perceptions by Donors in Kidney Transplants
Sachiko Tamura, Ph.D., R.N.
Keiko Shintani, Ph.D., R.N.
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The overall concept of the experience we obtained was. "Never mind about me."
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There's actually some interesting stuff in here.
1. The average age of the donor is much higher in Japan (at least 50) than in the US (40yoa).
2. 54% of LDs were parent (61% were mothers) to the recipient in Japan while the biggest chunk in the US is sibling, at not even 25%. Meanwhile, only approximately 13% of parents donate to their child in the US.
On the other hand:
1. I'm quite cautious about anything only based on 20 subjects.
2. The parent-child dynamic is different than another other relationship. It's inappropriate (and damaging) to apply it to any other donor-recipient situation.
BUT..... I'm liking this conclusion:
Donors have always been about sacrificing themselves, playing down their role. During the initial development of a care system for living donors, it is important to pay as much as attention to donors as to recipients. In this way, they will begin to be able to see themselves as patients and concentrate on their donor experience as another patient, without negating themselves.