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Living with family and friends is a common strategy to prevent or exit homelessness, but little known about structural barriers that impede friends’ ability provide temporary permanent housing for older homeless adults. We conducted semi-structured interviews 46 participants from the HOPE HOME study, cohort of 350 community-recruited adults age 50 in Oakland, CA, who reported staying housed fam...

This article explores existing evidence concerning the causes and experience of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual trans (LGBT) people. A total 88 sources, published after 2000, were included in review. represents most comprehensive review to date on issue, mapping out what is known about LGBT identifying gaps knowledge for future research. With a few notable exceptions, experiences home...

here are significant challenges to addressing the health needs of the omeless. The complex nature of homelessness, coupled with the cripling effects of poverty, limit the extent to which primary care providers re able to effectively deliver care within a traditional clinical environent. To provide appropriate and supportive patient care, the clinical ractice of the primary care provider should ...

Backgrounds and aims Problem gambling occurs at higher levels in the homeless than the general population. Past work has not established the extent to which problem gambling is a cause or consequence of homelessness. This study sought to replicate recent observations of elevated rates of problem gambling in a British homeless sample, and extend that finding by characterizing (a) the temporal se...

BACKGROUND Little empiric research has investigated the interrelationship between homelessness and traumatic brain injury. The objectives of this study were to determine the rate, mechanisms and associated outcomes of traumatic brain injury among men in an urban homeless shelter. METHODS We recruited participants from an urban men's shelter in Toronto, Ontario. Researchers administered the Br...

Homelessness and heavy alcohol consumption are increasing global public health concerns. is associated with poorer outcomes, shorter life expectancy, risk behaviours. High levels of intersect the cause effect homelessness making this an important consideration for research. This explored through a theoretical lens recovery capital, referring to resources required initiate maintain recovery, app...