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Not long after the start of  my fieldwork in a town in Northeast Italy, I was invited for pizza by members of an association formed by professional dementia care [...]

The Unforgotten. Artwork by Suhad Daher-Nashif (2024). In many Arab countries where state and religion are closely linked, states rely on religious institutions to govern their populations [...]

Well why am I talking about the past if you’re talking about the future?  Oh. Because you said you were planning on doing stuff that you hadn’t been able [...]

Maldisposta. Feeling unwell, a kind of general not-feeling-so-good, mostly associated with indigestion, fatigue, aches, lightheadedness, brain fog, and other symptoms. It can also mean “feeling bad,” or feeling irritable, [...]

In 2022, a press release from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported that six out of seven people in the world experience feelings of insecurity. The special report [...]

Is digital acceleration a threat to our older interlocutors? To what extent does being insecure about contemporary digital tools affect people’s everyday lives? Or is this insecurity caused by [...]

Jean can’t speak words anymore.¹ The words don’t form in her mouth, always open, almost like birds that forgot how to fly and remain trapped in the open cage. [...]

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, [...]