We visited a rarity in Bangladesh: an elderly care centre, partly privately sponsored and mostly paid for by the families of the people that live […]
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Senhor Nilton
Senhor Nilton, 66, lives in the centre of São Paulo and goes around daily to sell health insurances. He shares his apartment with a friend […]
Piet Seijsener
Piet is an active member of the neighbourhood committee of Amsterdam-centre, making a cause of provisions for elderly there, to prevent all the old Amsterdammers […]
Johora Begum
“This is Johora Begum, 92 years old, no children, saving the days in a private asylum for the elderly, somewhere in Dhaka. Dhaka, Bangladesh. I […]
Doña Trinidad
She came in, asked what we were doing and wanted to leave again. Ushered in by the daughter of Dona Olga, another elderly from Samaipata, […]
Tiny de Groot
Entering a classical elderly home setting in Amsterdam, long hallways, big recreation hall, elevators, we did not imagine to enter a home as light and […]
Don Raul Costas
Don Raul welcomed us to the village of his birth, Samaipata. Living next to his brother Don Hermegones Costas with one of his sons, he […]
Doña Olga
Doña Olga is 83 years old now and have been a widow for 40 years. By herself she managed her little shop, while raising her […]
Kum Ém
Our Vietnamese neighbor has been living in Cambodia since 1981. Her husband lives here too, some streets away. Together they got 11 children, 4 of whom passed […]
Don Pepe
To work with elderly anywhere is tricky, since many do not like themselves being old and refuse to take a picture. Of course, once we […]