As with many of WTB’s projects, the need for the Center arose from listening to the voices on the ground, as we realized the extent to which women’s lived experiences around their health and wellbeing in the later years are all but silenced. These insights were gathered through WTB’s work on the ground, including workshops and seminars we offer to communities of women all across Israel in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian and Amharic. To read more about our workshops please click here. In our field work, we hear directly from women who share their experiences and thoughts regarding body image, sickness and health, life partners, sexuality and intimacy, complex relationships with family members, as well as with medical systems and services. The Center aims to provide much needed information on all these topics, to challenge and change existing perceptions about women of this age group, and raise awareness both for women and their service providers. We established the Center because we believe that being an elder woman is a different experience to being an elder man – and we are in need of a feminist approach that takes into account women’s life experiences, their unique needs, and their voices.