Fidelis Soares (not his real name) worked as a healthcare nurse at a community health center situated on the outskirts of Kupang, Indonesia. He oversaw the day clinic for [...]
February 2014. Through the rice fields, then under the palm trees we went briskly, Manish and I, in the white Mitsubishi van that his Ayurvedic clinic had just acquired. [...]
Over many years, I watched Mabel Aboagyewa plan for her return to Ghana. As she approached the age of sixty-five, after living in the US for over forty years, [...]
1. Bending over the kitchen table, Regina reached out with her hand and lightly touched my arm. My hand had caressed the flowery cloth next to my coffee mug. [...]
Coming up the escalators from the Potong Pasir MRT station on a humid Tuesday evening, I walk ahead through the decks of the public housing blocks that surround the station [...]
Mural in a shelter for the elderly urban-poor in Lima, Peru, depicting older adults dancing. Photo by Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori. Anthropological studies have underscored aging as a [...]
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