Ep# 15 - Spotlight on Vie Ortiz – Who cares for the caregiver? - PV & LV Café Podcast

🎧 Episode 15 — Who Cares for the Caregiver? Culture, Communication & Care Spotlight From the Patient Voice & Linguistic Validation Café Podcast 🎙️ Co-hosted by Nur Ferrante and Mark Gibson 🌟 Featuring Vie Ortiz Join us for an honest and deeply human conversation about the invisible side of care—and the people whose voices we need to hear more often. 🎙️ WHO CARES FOR THE CAREGIVER? Behind every person receiving care, there is often another person whose needs, voice and wellbeing become almost invisible. The caregiver. In Episode 15 of the Culture, Communication & Care Spotlight, part of the Patient Voice & Linguistic Validation Café Podcast, we ask a question that deserves far more attention: Who cares for the person who is caring for everyone else? Co-hosts Nur Ferrante and Mark Gibson speak with Vie Ortiz, a Spanish medical translator, linguistic validation consultant, advocate and caregiver whose life has been profoundly shaped by more than 20 years of caring for family members. Vie shares a deeply personal journey through caregiving across generations—from her grandmother with Alzheimer's and her father with cancer to her mother with dementia—while also raising three children, including a son with severe hearing loss whose diagnosis required years of determined advocacy. This is a conversation about much more than caregiving. It is about: 💬 The way caregiving often happens—not through choice, but because life gradually places us in that role. 💬 The physical and emotional exhaustion that can remain unseen. 💬 Guilt—and why caregivers often struggle to give themselves permission to rest. 💬 The isolation of watching someone you love gradually disappear. 💬 The practical support caregivers really need—not simply being told to be patient. 💬 The importance of advocacy, information and finding support before reaching breaking point. 💬 And the urgent need to recognise caregivers not simply as an extension of the person receiving care, but as people with needs, limits, emotions and lives of their own. One of the most powerful messages from this conversation is simple: Caregivers do not just need praise. They need practical support, relief, information, understanding—and permission to step away without guilt. Because caring for someone else should never mean disappearing yourself. 🙏 Kindly sponsored by Gibson Research Consultancy https://www.grc-health.com/ ---------------------------------------- The Patient Voice & Linguistic Validation Café is an informal monthly gathering within the ART OF DIVERSITY Patient Voice Research & Linguistic Validation Training Program. This podcast series has been created by Nur Ferrante and Mark Gibson. For more information on the Art of Diversity School, please visit https://www.artofdiversity.org/art-of-dive... #PatientVoiceResearch, #QualitativeResearch, #LinguisticValidation, #LinguisticValidationCafé, #LinguisticValidationCommunity, #LinguisticValidationCourse, #LinguisticValidationTraining, #COA, #eCOA, #MedicalTranslation, #GibsonResearchConsultancy, #Coquelle Consulting Copyright 2026 Nur Ferrante, ART OF DIVERSITY www.artofdiversity.org #WhoCaresForTheCaregiver #Caregiving #CaregiverVoice #PatientVoice #PatientCentredCare #HealthcareCommunication #DementiaCare #FamilyCaregivers #HealthAdvocacy #CultureCommunicationCare #HumanisingHealthcare