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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. Government is not the 51st state. He had overdosed due to a combination of alcohol and street drugs. And so the metrics kind of spoke for itself.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Sometime after the age of 50, we could identify an event where the folks who were first homeless before 50, there wasn’t a clear crisis that precipitated it. Folks who were first homeless after 50, there was an event, and usually those events could be described in one of four categories. We spend money in healthcare.