by Jeffrey M Levine | Apr 19, 2016
Given the subject matter it is fitting that my last cover on The Gerontologist came out in time for the Spring holidays. I’ve been looking back on my 20 years of covers on TG and blogging on themes that ran through the images. This post presents a selection of...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Apr 9, 2016
A recent cover of The Gerontologist features a musician at the local Octoberfest, a yearly block party that celebrates the German immigrant heritage of my neighborhood in Manhattan that is now only a memory. TG is the flagship journal of the Gerontological Society of...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Feb 7, 2016
I recently attended a medical conference in Savannah, Georgia, and my stay was supposed to be short, but a huge blizzard coming from the midwest cancelled thousands of flights including mine. Good thing I brought my sketching supplies, because I was in this charming ...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Feb 4, 2013
In May 2012 I traveled to Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia to photograph aging and gain better understanding of international differences in how people grow old. I was amazed to learn the extent that elders are revered in traditional Kyrgyz society. The collapse of the...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Nov 12, 2012
Victory Day is the Russian national holiday commemorating surrender of the German army on May 9, 1945. The country fought for 6 bloody years and lost over 26 million people including 8.5 million soldiers. In Moscow there is a military parade in Red Square, and...
