Aging Well: A Geriatrician Looks at Aging

Recorded: Wednesday, December 6, 2023
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In this seminar, geriatrician and photographer Jeffrey Levine, MD, introduces his body of work, illustrating the process of aging in health, debility, and spirituality with emphasis on how aging intersects with society and culture, as well as the diversity of the aging population in America. His work strives to disrupt ageist preconceptions that society has internalized and expressed through mass media, to facilitate a more nuanced view of the myriad of ways people experience aging. Levine also touches upon his year of saying Kaddish (the mourner’s prayer) with the aging scholars and rabbis on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Jeffrey M. Levine is Associate Clinical Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative care at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and a nationally recognized expert in wound care and pressure injuries. He began his photographic exploration of growing old during his geriatric fellowship at Mount Sinai in the 1980s, with the goal of creating a visual encyclopedia of human aging. His images have appeared in national exhibits and numerous publications including The Gerontologist, the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.