What can we do, and how can we live with the time we are constantly

gaining on death?

At the crucial moment of loss of autonomy, this question is posed with acuity. In the
confined spaces of homes or the tiny rooms of residential homes, there are
confrontations, losses and solidarity, tenderness and joy, which reveal the strength and
depth of life's long journey.

The elderly, their families, nurses and carers, these new "surveyors of time"

, become the

drivers of this journey of initiation into old age. Behind the muted silences of old age, the
apparent immobility and slowness, new spaces emerge to be explored, at the risk of
losing our humanity.