While on a tour of a geriatric hospital in France, photographer Maja Daniels came across a locked door with portholes in it. Behind it, someone was trying to get her attention. When she asked, Daniels learned that the door led to a protective unit for the hospital’s Alzheimer’s patients, meant to keep them safe and to keep them from wandering off and getting lost.

“I was just struck by the image of that door,” says Daniels.

That door opened the way for Daniels’ series “Into Oblivion,” a documentary project that exposed some of the many issues surrounding Alzheimer's patients while also highlighting society's generational disconnect from its elders. Shot over the course of a three-year period, “Into Oblivion” was the