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This is the final episode in a ten-part series. Today we meet a successful woman with native American roots, Loretta Guzman. Loretta had a vision, and it came to her in a dream in the form of a bison, and now she operates a coffee shop on Cully in Northeast … Then, to wrap things up, we’ll briefly revisit a few of our earlier episodes and sum up some lessons learned along the way from Portland’s entrepreneurs and business advisors.
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This is the ninth in a ten-part series. Today we visit Portland's Mercado, an innovative showplace for food and culture. This show features Gaudencia Felipe of Mixteca Catering.
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This is the eighth in a team-part series This show features caterer Yvette Penson of Sweet Temptations.
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This seventh show features Michelle Sanders and Miguel Salinas of Attic Journals..
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This sixth show features Juiie Derrick, owner of JD Shoes..
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In this fifth episode of a ten-part series, we meet Dimas Diaz, a man who sells commercial insurance. He tells us about his origins in Cuba and travels to Portland via Florida.
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This fourth show features MinNefer Menakhem, owner of Dirty Bastard.
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This is the third in the DI Squared series….a ten-part weekly feature of KBOO News on entrepreneurs of color in the Portland area.
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This is the second in a series of ten shows on entrepreneurs in Portland. In this episode we feature Christian Kofi and his wife Natalya, founders of Portland Movers.
info_outlineAllison Lindauer
Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Schools of Medicine and Nursing at OHSU
Alison Lindauer is a nationally-certified gerontological nurse practitioner with a PhD. In gerontological nursing. As an assistant professor at OHSU's Layton Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Center, she cares for persons with dementia and their caregivers. With over 15 years experience in aging care, Dr. Lindauer conducts research on dementia caregiving and telehealth. She is a preceptor and mentor for students in health-related studies. Her publications can be found in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, The Gerontologist, and Research in Gerontological Nursing.
We discussed these issues:
What is the difference (or is there one) between the OHSU Brain Institute and the Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Center?
Funding comes in part from the National Institutes of Health, is that right? Is there a danger that the Institute will lose funding under the proposed federal budget?
What is the difference between Alzheimer’s disease and dementia?
Let’s discuss Alzheimer’s itself:
- Can you talk about a specific example (no names, of course) of working with a patient and the family to address their issues: diagnosis, treatment, outcome…
- how and when it occurs,
- how we recognize it,
- what can be done,
- is it hereditary,
- what are the promising areas of research?
What’s it like for the family of the patient/person with Alzheimer’s?
Do you recommend strategies for the family to cope with the condition?
Do you work on the clinical trials at the Layton Center?
- What kinds of things do they test?
- What types of participants are you seeking?
- How does a person apply