6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (758+ words) What does a person need after long years of work, contribution, and experience? Healthcare, social support, and financial security matter. Yet older adults also need something no medical test can measure: the assurance that their presence, experience, and identity still…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (816+ words) The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2025): “There were 187,268 registered deaths in 2024, an increase of 4,137 since 2023” [1]. From this information one could conclude that presently about 90,000 Australians die preventably annually out of a total of 187,268 registered deaths in total (2024) [1, 2], in good agreement…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (908+ words) Yet what I remember most is not her list of positions. It is the person I encountered in Damascus. I met Prof. Niaz during the Pan Arab Conference of Psychiatry in Damascus, held from August 21 to 23, 2008. Her lecture examined trauma…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1003+ words) The phrase that accompanied the images from Jaipur, “silent protest”, was likely meant as admiration. But it obscures more than it reveals. The unequal grammar of political legitimacy In Jaipur, the evaluative vocabulary moved in the opposite direction. The students…...