Gloria Barnes maintains a strict exercise regime, returning to modeling in her sixties, now with the Ford Agency. New York, NY. 1998
Former Burlesque star Dixie Evans, 71, at the opening ceremonies of the 1998 Miss Exotic World Pageant, held on a ranch in the middle of the Mojave Desert in California. 1998
A group of friends check their make-up after a meal in a Coconut Creek bagel shop, Florida. 2001
Herb Winokur watches basketball while his partner Ruth gets ready to go out in Delray Beach, Florida. 2001
Inmates of the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed facility gather to smoke in the prison yard in Hamilton, Alabama. 1997
Lilly May Red Eagle, a devout Episcopalian, is an outspoken elder who talks on a weekly radio show for seniors. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. 2000
Dennis Weiss, 55, was taken into the home of Florette and Joseph Fortune, after suffering a stroke, in Deptford, New Jersey. 1999
A woman plays on the slot machines on a gaming tour in Reno, Nevada. 2000
An inmate at the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed facility on his bunkbed, used because of overcrowding. Hamilton, Alabama. 1997
Billy Dunn, 64, suffers from emphysema and throat cancer at the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed facility in Hamilton, Alabama. 1997
A sprinter crosses the finish line during a track event at the Senior Olympics in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 2001
Gerald Gross and Ricky Caminetti fell in love in their eighties. Their wedding was attended by over 200 hundred guests in Miama, Florida. 2001
A woman brushes her husband’s hair at Messiah Village, a Christian retirement community in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. 1997
100-year-old Isaac Donner washes his face next to an old photograph of himself at home in San Francisco, California. 1999
Seniors work on the packaging line at the Bonne Bell Cosmetic factory in Lakewood, Ohio, the nation’s first assembly line of older workers. 2001
Daisy Alexander, 53, an exotic dancer who regularly performs in clubs in the Los Angeles area, performs a striptease in the 1998 Miss Exotic World pageant in the Mojave Desert, California. 1998
Delphia Stuby, 72, stares down her street after a tornado leveled everything in sight in Spencer, South Dakota. 1998
Howard "Chief" Killingsworth suffers from heart disease and emphysema and must wear an oxygen mask day and night at the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed facility in Hamilton, Alabama. 1997
Warren Dewitt gives Arden Peters a haircut in the kitchen of the Peters farmhouse in Gladesville, West Virginia. 2000
Warren Dewitt and Arden Peters walk together in Gladesville, West Virginia. 2000
Back from the hospital, Vance Mayle spends his final hours in his own home, surrounded by family and friends in Grafton, West Virginia. 2000
Walter Burnette, 90, eats at the Hillsville Diner every morning at 4:45 am, like clockwork. Austinsville, Virginia. 2001
Inmates at the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed Facility gather to smoke in the designated outdoor area in Hamilton, Alabama. 1997
81-year-old veteran James Bowlding is cared for by his son at home in Washington, D.C. 2000
Lucille Bull Bear smokes a cigarette in a nursing home in nearby Martin, South Dakota. 2000
Ila Swan (R), an advocate for nursing home reform, pays a visit to Dorothy Deamondo in Placerville, California. 2000
Marlene Patton, 67, attends Sturgis Motorcycle Rally where she was crowned queen in 1977. Sturgis, South Dakota. 1998
Marvin Wilson, 94, owns the only house left standing after a tornado on the south side of town in Spencer, South Dakota. 1998
These images are excerpts from Aging in America, published by powerHouse Books in 2003.