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A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.
A middle-aged woman looks forward to growing old because she believes older people are less beholden to other's expectations, but her friend disagrees.
When a friendly resident at a retirement home starts to decline in health and popularity, a woman reflects on what it means to grow old when there’s no one to look out for you.
An elderly woman in a senior living community spends most of her time alone. As she waits for her daughters to visit, she quells her loneliness by having dinner with her neighbor.
In the far future on a cold and snowy planet, an aging woman seeks a successor to her role as Kunchen: a bearer of memory for her people across generations, a role in which one must live a long and lonely life punctuated by decade-long cryosleeps.
An old man becomes aware of the finality of his life, and that he couldn't find much meaning to it anymore.
An elderly female-identifying character remembers the past through dreams and memories, growing frustrated with the limitations of age and the fact that the revolution she has spent a lifetime working towards is starting elsewhere. As she comes back from a walk in the city, someone invites her to speak at tomorrow’s march, but she replies she will not be there.
A man tries to understand the relationship between his aging mother and her African caretaker, attempting to evade his own prejudices in order to better comprehend their connection.
An elderly woman spends twenty years of her life in paranoia and depression after the death of her husband, only to gain sudden, supreme clarity after a small incident at the end of her life.
After being put in a nursing home by her daughter, an elderly woman feels her family slipping away from her until it is too late for reconciliation.