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Elderly

first person Nov. 9, 2020

COVID Took My Grandfather. But It Wasn’t What Killed Him.His death, six months into the pandemic, is as political as it is biological.

By Sarah Jones
the longest lives May 29, 2020

‘We Lost Sister Grace on Monday’The sisters of Mount Saint Vincent Convent are praying we learn from this.

By Amelia Schonbek
documentary May 28, 2020

This 107-Year-Old Viral-Star Grandma Has Some Advice for YouIn her second century, Louise “Nonnie” Bonito is still making meatballs and refusing to dwell on the negative.

As told to Lisa Addario
documentary May 27, 2020

Inside Brighton Beach’s Babushka Beauty PageantFor the past 19 years, the Your Highness Grandmother pageant has culled the best and the brightest of Brooklyn’s grandmas.

By Hailey Benton Gates
profile May 26, 2020

Surviving It AllShe’s 92, made it through the Holocaust, and set off for a cruise around the world in February.

By Rebecca Traister
the longest lives May 26, 2020

Our Fragile GerontocracyOld people have never been so powerful — or, now, so vulnerable.

By Mark Harris