
pmid: 17998110
After this issue, the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA) is undergoing a design change and will no longer feature photographs on the cover. Thus ends a 7-year odyssey in which I have taken the JAMDA reader with me for thousands of miles to discover the face of aging. This cover featuring my parents—the twenty-second time JAMDA has published my photography—is a fitting way to end this successful run of images that began with a photo of my grandmother at 100 years of age. As a physician specializing in geriatrics, I have cared for and been touched by many elders. As a photographer, I show a side of human life that our culture has conditioned us to turn away from. I avoid showing the pain and suffering of old age, and concentrate on the inner spirit that has enabled and resulted in longevity. My goal is to challenge stereotypes and reformulate our perceptions of growing old. JAMDA readers have accompanied me to the Senior Tennis League in Central Park, and to the home of a village elder in Tulum in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The reader has accompanied me into a nursing home where I served as medical director to visit one of my patients. Few people know that it’s my dog sitting on her lap. With the permission of my colleague Lory Bright-Long, I had the privilege of photographing within the Maria Regina Residence—a home for aging clergy—which led to a cover in 2004. The design for this cover featured a composite of images, a layout suggested by Dr. Dan Osterweil. A trip to a remote area of New Mexico took JAMDA readers into the Zuni Reservation to visit Winifred
Physician-Patient Relations, Travel, Geriatrics, Physicians, Photography, Humans, Periodicals as Topic
Physician-Patient Relations, Travel, Geriatrics, Physicians, Photography, Humans, Periodicals as Topic
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