Homeless people and psychiatric care.

Transitory spaces of care: serving homeless people on the street.

Within a rapidly expanding body of work exploring the role of hostels and day centres in the accommodation and care of homeless people, very little attention has been paid to the dynamics of the soup run. Soup runs have, however, recently become a focus of concern for the British Government who, echoing 19th century debates regarding the 'inappropriate' distribution of alms, argue that they are...

Physician payment for the care of homeless people.

Attributions about homelessness in homeless and domiciled people in Madrid, Spain: "Why are they homeless people?".

Causal attributions of homelessness may affect both the design and acceptance of public policies aimed at improving the situation of homeless people and the strategies that homeless people themselves decide to adopt in order to cope with their situation. This article analyzes the differences in causal attributions of homelessness based on gender, age, nationality, educational background, percei...

Psychiatric admission for homeless people: the impact of a specialist community mental health team

Considerable problems have been encountered In providing care to homeless people with mental health problems (Health Advisory Service, 1995). In many instances mainstream services have failed to adapt to meet the needs of people who are often not registered with a GP and who regularly move between catchment areas. In districts with high levels of homelessness, specialist community teams have be...

Mental disorders among homeless people admitted to a French psychiatric emergency service.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with homelessness status among patients admitted to the psychiatric emergency ward of a French public teaching hospital over a six-year study period (2001-2006). METHODS The study was based on a retrospective review of the psychiatric emergency ward's administrative and medical computer databases. Each emergency care episode h...