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Late-life homelessness : experiences of disadvantage and unequal aging /

"Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise. In spite of growing media attention and new academic research on the issue, older people often remain unrecognized as a subpopulation in public policy, programs, and homeless strategies. As such, t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grenier, Amanda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Context, frame, and methodology. Setting the context
  • The state of knowledge on late-life homelessness
  • A critical perspective and ethnographic approach to late-life homelessness
  • Project insights from four thematic angles. Age and late-life homelessness
  • The places of late-life homelessness : aging in "undesirable" locations
  • Late-life homelessness as a reflection of disadvantage of time
  • Late-life homelessness as social exclusion and abandonment
  • Directions for change. The need to prevent homelessness across the life course and into late life
  • The moral imperative : political and just responses to late-life homelessness.