Donate to the Transplant Wellness Program

The Southern Alberta Transplant Program currently cares for 1,842 patients with either kidney, lung, heart, or liver transplants. Another 946 patients in this program are either listed for, or in the process of being listed for a solid organ transplant, with approximately 154 of these receiving a transplant each year. While waiting for a transplant, many patients become deconditioned and increasingly frail, often developing additional health issues that could impede their ability to successfully undergo transplant surgery.

The transplant wellness team has developed a program to improve the health and wellness of transplant patients. With your help, we can expand this innovative program to the kidney, liver, and lung transplant patients – bringing new hope and life-changing impact to Southern Alberta residents and their families. By supporting this work, you can make a critical difference for transplant patients now and into the future.

Physical activity may be beneficial for patients who are preparing or recovering from organ transplants. Performing physical activity prior to or after transplant surgery may help improve how well the surgery is tolerated, reduce the amount of time in hospital, aid in recovery, and improve overall physical and mental wellness.

The transplant wellness program (TWP) offers comprehensive wellness support for organ recipients to become more physically active before and after surgery. TWP will also support wellness behaviour change, helping participants overcome barriers to physical activity through wellness behavior change support as well as via participation in an exercise program.

When participants consent to the TWP, they will be offered a 12-week exercise intervention supervised by a Clinical Exercise Physiologist (CEP) and wellness behavior change support. They can participate in the 12-week exercise intervention before or after their transplant surgery. We will also be offering TWP maintenance resources such as group exercise classes, group wellness behaviour change support, and educational webinars after the intervention.

The purpose of this research study is to assess if the TWP exercise intervention and maintenance resources, including education and programs, will support wellness across physical (i.e., frailty, physical activity levels) and mental (i.e., depression, anxiety) health outcomes, and enhance the overall quality of life in transplant patients. We are also studying the association between the TWP (exercise intervention and maintenance resources) and markers of health care system use, such as number of hospital admissions and length of hospital stays.

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