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Disabled on the street: the course of functional impairment in older homeless adults
Author(s): Theora Cimino, Michael A. Steinman, Susan L. Mitchell, Miao, Caroline E. Barnhart, Rebecca T. Brown
Publication Date: 2015
Over the past 25 years, the proportion of the homeless population 50 years of age and older has increased rapidly, from 11% in 19901 to nearly 50% today.2 Older homeless adults experience early onset of age-related conditions relative to the general population, including difficulty performing basic self-care activities that are considered essential for independence, such as bathing and dressing.3 Such difficulty, or “functional impairment,” occur...
Characteristics of Emergency Department Visits by Older Versus Younger Homeless Adults in the United States
Author(s): Rebecca T. Brown, Michael A. Steinman
Publication Date: 2013
We compared the characteristics of emergency department (ED) visits of older versus younger homeless adults. <i>Methods.</i> We analyzed 2005–2009 data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, a nationally representative survey of visits to hospitals and EDs, and used sampling weights, strata, and clustering variables to obtain nationally representative estimates. <i>Results.&l...