Challenges of Aging in Brazil
The elderly men without pensions or savings were trying to eke out a living selling water and juice in the streets of São Paulo. This recent image on Brazilian television drew attention to the…
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Country: Brazil
Life through Medications: Dementia Care in Brazil
It is another morning at the geriatric outpatient clinic of the local university hospital. I accompany one of the residents who guides an old woman in a wheelchair and three of her seven adult…
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Democracy and Brazil’s Electoral Party System
In summer 2019, as part of my doctoral research, I asked a retired Brazilian politician about the adoption of a constitutional provision to require candidates for political office to belong to one of the country’s political parties. As one of the leaders of the democratic forces…
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Self-Evident Truths
When I was in fifth grade, I remember reading a short piece by Brazilian humorist Luis Fernando Verissimo about an untranslatable Portuguese expression. In the essay, Verissimo narrates the…
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Insects, Plants and Challenges Ahead
One of the great pleasures that I had as a Ph.D. student at Harvard was the opportunity to travel across Latin America, and particularly throughout my home country, Brazil. The thousands of…
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