Late-Life Homelessness : Experiences of Disadvantage and Unequal Aging / Amanda Grenier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grenier, Amanda, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging--Canada.

Aging.

Equality--Canada.

Equality.

Older homeless persons--Canada.

Older homeless persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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, they occupy a paradoxical position of being hypervisible while remaining overlooked.Late-Life Homelessness is the first Canadian book to address this often neglected issue. Basing her analysis on a four-year ethnographic study of late-life homelessness in Montreal, Canada, Amanda Grenier uses a critical gerontological perspective to explore life at the intersection of aging and homelessness. She draws attention to disadvantage over time and how the condition of being unhoused disrupts a person’s ability to age in place, resulting in experiences of unequal aging. Weaving together findings from policy documents, stakeholder insights, and observations and interviews with older people, this book demonstrates how structures, organizational practices, and relationships related to homelessness and aging come to shape late life.Situated in the context of an aging population, rising inequality, and declining social commitments, Late-Life Homelessness stresses the moral imperative of responding justly to the needs of older people as a means of mitigating the unequal aging of unhoused elders.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

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 over 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

Canadian Definition of Homelessness

Comparative Table of Older People with Lived Experience

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)

ISBN:

0-2280-0953-7

OCLC:

1394871859