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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability. In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless.