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Ailments of the homeless

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elte Offline
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-02-ho...cades.html -"Homeless people in their fifties have more geriatric conditions than those living in homes who are decades older, according to researchers at UC San Francisco who are following 350 people who are homeless and aged 50 and over, in Oakland."

People also may suffer ailments of the homeless, but to a lesser degree, even if they have a place to live, if income is low.
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#2
C C Offline
A pretty miserable existence. In the 19th-century, prior to the now defunct and once easy-to-enter state hospitals becoming ubiquitous and providing them with intermittent shelter, the poor or outcast mentally ill often lived in makeshift shanty "communities" outside cities. A less populated and more of a "do-it-yourself" hunting, fishing, and general foraging in woods & countryside era, with lofty contemporary standards not policing them or driving them out as much perhaps. But still, with today's homeless shelters and numerous dumpsters in back of restaurants, food markets, and the like.... The contemporary urban homeless might be slightly better off in some respects.
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#3
Magical Realist Online
Here in Portland we are very lax in our homeless laws. We have acquired a reputation for this across the country. There are numerous shanty towns located underneath bridges and alongside highways and jogging paths that have had some complaints. People don't like to jog thru these encampments, and sometimes the complaints get bad enough that the police come in and clear them out. But they just go somewhere else. Portland's long term solution is the provision of more homeless shelters. One whole building downtown was donated by the owner as a homeless shelter. A totally unused prison was suggested once, until it was realized to be to far from the city without transportation besides the fact that it's a PRISON..duh! I think these people need to be helped to transition back into society with rehab programs, mental health services, and job training. But that costs money, and taxpayers often don't take to their taxes being raised.
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