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DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 10
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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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DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 9
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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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DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 8
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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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DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 7
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This seventh show features Michelle Sanders and Miguel Salinas of Attic Journals..
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DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 6
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This sixth show features Juiie Derrick, owner of JD Shoes..
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DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 5
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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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DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 4
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This fourth show features MinNefer Menakhem, owner of Dirty Bastard.
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DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 3
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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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DI Squared: Dream It, Do It, Episode 2
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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_outlineViki Kind
Viki Kind is a clinical bioethicist, professional speaker and hospice volunteer. Her award winning book, The Caregiver’s Path to Compassionate Decision Making: Making Choices For Those Who Can’t, guides families, conservators and other professionals through the difficult process of making decisions for those who have lost capacity. Her newly released book, The Caregiver’s Path: Resource Workbook, Conversation Guide and Visual Toolkit, provides uniquely designed communication tools for managing challenging conversations such as evaluating danger and risk, managing guilt and denial, end-of-life decisions, and helping the family know when it is time to create a new care plan.
Viki is known as “The People’s Bioethicist,” because she bridges two worlds, that of the health care professional and of the family struggling to make the right decision.
We asked Viki to discuss the following issues:
What does that term mean, “clinical bioethicist?”
What does it mean to be old? What’s your age cut-off for elderly?
Describe a typical situation in which you engage as a service provider. What’s the setting and who are the principal players?
Your focus is not only the elderly, you deal with cognitive impairment, dementia, stroke or other cognitive impairments. Is that right? How much of your work deals with elderly?
You mention four tools to use when making the difficult life, health and end-of-life decisions. Tell us what they are and how you use them.
How do you (or how does a family member) know when to step in versus stepping back and letting people make their own decisions?
What are the specific questions to ask and strategies to use to make good decisions about CPR, feeding tubes and other end-of-life choices?
What is the 4-step process that you suggest caregivers use to get the support they need in making tough decisions?
End of life treatment is often a very expensive time….How do you help the patient and family to make meaningful end-of-life decisions while spending money on what really matters?
What are the “right questions” to ask near the end of life and how do you discern what the doctor is really saying?
Do you ever withhold the truth, or lie, with patients or family? How do you deal with feelings of guilt associated with end of life times?
You say there are simple tests to determine “What’s the Right Thing to Do?” What are those tests?