Aging and homelessness in Canada: A review of frameworks and strategies

The purpose of this report is to explore guidelines on aging and on homelessness, as a basis for establishing suitable policy and practice responses to homelessness among older people. It addresses the following question: How do the agendas in the domains of aging and of homelessness address homelessness among older people? What lessons can be learned?

This report is a critical analysis of frameworks on aging, and strategies on homelessness. It is founded on the premise that policy discourses can significantly impact social programming and lived experience

Publication Date: 
2015
Location: 
Canada