Aging Homeless Face More Health Issues, Early Death

[Judi Lynn]

Aging Homeless Face More Health Issues, Early Death
by Pam Fessler
March 13, 2013 4:24 AM

If aging is not for sissies, that's especially true if you're homeless. You can be on your feet for hours, forced to sleep in the frigid cold, or seriously ill with no place to go.

But increasingly, the nation's homeless population is getting older. By some estimates, more than half of single homeless adults are 47 or older.

And there's growing alarm about what this means — both for the aging homeless and for those who have to foot the bill. The cost to society, especially for health care and social services, could mushroom.

As in many cities across the country, there are plenty of homeless people in Baltimore — about 4,000 by the latest count.

More:
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/13/173463462/aging-homeless-face-more-health-issues-early-death

[Skittles]

1. listen up, those of you who like to trash boomers as entitled

"He says the growth in the aging homeless population is due largely to one group: younger baby boomers, those born between 1955 and 1965. They came of age in the late '70s and '80s, amid back-to-back recessions and a crack cocaine epidemic. Culhane says individuals in this age group are almost twice as likely as those in other age groups to be homeless."

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2. K&R