Housing instability complicates end-of-life care for aging unhoused populations
- Written by Pilar Ingle, Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Work, University of Denver
People who are unhoused use emergency rooms for medical care. Halfpoint Images/GettyImagesResearch estimates that one-third or more of the unhoused population in the U.S. is age 50 or older.
Unhoused people of all ages face high rates of chronic and serious illness. They also die at younger ages compared with people who are not unhoused.
Yet, there...
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