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by Liat Katz

Wordless Tea

She smells like sour milk and she looks like loneliness. I am tasked with meeting her and coming up with a written plan. She is all of 80 pounds sitting on a faded-pink wingback chair and wearing only a tattered top. No underwear, no pants, just a camisole. I hold her 90-year-old wrinkled hand and look at her. The dangling skin from her thighs looks like old white shirts draped on metal hangers.

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The Refusal of Time: Visiting the Old Old

The articles in this special section:

Wordless Tea

by Liat Katz

“Go check on Gramma,” my father said.

by Gayle Ann Weinstein

The Gingham Dresses

by Alisha Kaplan

Reading “Dear Abby” in Massachusetts

by Jayne Lampert

As told to Susan Schnur

Capturing the Elderly Visiting Each Other


  • Richard Waugaman

    We are fortunate to have dedicated clinicians like Liat Katz– and especially one who can write as well as she does.