Living on the Margins

@article{Mcdonald2007LivingOT,
  title={Living on the Margins},
  author={Lynn Mcdonald and Julie M Dergal and Laura Cleghorn},
  journal={Journal of Gerontological Social Work},
  year={2007},
  volume={49},
  pages={19 - 46}
}
Summary A handful of scholars have acknowledged that, along side the traditional homeless, there are now older people who become homeless for the first time in old age. Few researchers, however, have systematically compared the recent older homeless with the chronic or traditional homeless. In the research presented here, we compare recent older homeless with long-term older homeless adults in Toronto according to their health and wealth, their housing history, and their use of health and… 
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