I created this visual presentation to help students in my "Women & Aging" course in the Masters program in Women's Health at Suffolk University. I wanted them to be able to envision aging over the full continuum of life---including into old age. Too often old women are overlooked, ignored or out of sight. Their faces and bodies are seldom found in magazines, television programs or on billboards. This absence depletes my dreams, distances me from the the woman I am becoming, and increases my fears and isolation. One day I will die. But meanwhile, as my body moves on its course towards inevitable frailty, there is much living to do.

1. Living, Aging

2. I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old.

16. I am of the nature to have ill-health. There is no way to escape having ill-health.

30. I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death.

40. All that is dear to me and everyone I love Are of the nature to change.

49. There is no way to escape being separated from them. My actions are my only true belongings.

67. Produced by Diane D’Souza, 2010 For the course “Women and Aging” Masters Program in Women’s Health Suffolk University, Boston

68. Photos thanks to: Derrick Tyson, R. Stecher, Seema K K, Alessandro Vannucci, Richard Taylor, David Merrigan, Dave, Gunnar Salvarsson,Saipal, H. J. Wesselink, Pedro RibeiroSimões, PoonomoDilip, L. J., Bonnie Almeida, TXD, JonelHanopol, K. Kendal, Laurent Rappa, RonnAldaman, Madmaclean, Tobias FIdelis, Scott Griessel, Calo-graphy, Zanthia, Lintmachine, Paul Goyette, Onlinewoman, GeirHalvorsen, Dietmar Temps, Sasan F., Andrea Mucelli, HarikrishnanBhaskaran, Mattia, Lon&Queta, Rosa Polin, Sebastien, RodolpheSebbah, CatarinaFontoura, Lauren Malatesta, Shane Perez, Two Roses, Chris Sneddon, Bob Mercer, Kenneth Enstad, Dan Odendaal, Zeno, Laura R. O., Doreen De Greef, Alexandra Martin, Lou Dizon, Thomas Hawk, Stephen Schwartz, Federico Casares, B_cool , Collin Key, David Dennis, Ronn Ashore, Emdot, Makadaka, Beau-foto, Nate Steiner, Bengt Nyman, SukantoDebnath, Tina Negus. Words thanks to: Siddhartha Guatama