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| | A Martínez came to NPR in 2021 and is one of Morning Edition and Up First's hosts. |
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Is culturally competent health care as important as medically competent health care? I used to think a doctor’s skills were all that mattered. Who cares about anything else? Since they're all "practicing" medicine…
My perspective started to change when my family realized my grandfather was slipping into dementia. |
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We had to make a choice as we searched for a facility: The more medically competent places looked great but lacked an understanding of what my Spanish-speaking grandfather might need day to day. The more culturally competent facilities lacked enough resources to quell our concerns. So, instead of choosing between those two, we chose to get the best of both and care for him at home. Two family members retired early to care for him full-time, and the rest helped when their schedules allowed. It was a decade of physically and emotionally grueling work, but it was the best possible place for him to live out his life. He got to eat the Ecuadorian food he was used to and got to listen to all the Andean music he loved since childhood.
This was the subject of a recent roundtable I had with Mario Tapia, founder of the Latino Center on Aging, and Maria Aranda, executive director of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging. Both think the U.S. is not prepared for the growing number of older Latinos who will soon be needing elder care.
🎧 Listen to our conversation here. |
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Umami is now considered a primary taste – alongside sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. Long before she knew its name, NPR’s Yuki Noguchi grew up eating foods steeped in it in her Japanese immigrant household. She wanted to learn what makes this complex taste – the only one where smell plays a part. She found years of racist resistance from Western cultures tied to MSG myths. But now we know that umami is everywhere – including in your pepperoni pizza.
🎧 Listen to how it might be a healthy alternative for airplane food, or read the story here. |
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| | Danish artist Jens Haaning has been asked to repay a loan worth about $76,400 to the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art after he delivered two blank canvases titled Take the Money and Run. |
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| | In 2013, Alie Ward was unhappy in her job, her dad was diagnosed with cancer and her relationship ended. To distract herself, she took photos of bugs and posted them online. Her unsung hero, an entomologist, gave her a museum tour and changed her life. |
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