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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grenier, Amanda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older homeless persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Late-Life Homelessness is the first Canadian book to address this often neglected issue. Drawing from 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 older age and homelessness.

Contents:

Cover

LATE-LIFE HOMELESSNESS

Title

Copyright

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

SECTION I: CONTEXT, FRAME, AND METHODOLOGY

1 Setting the Context

2 The State of Knowledge on Late-Life Homelessness

3 A Critical Perspective and Ethnographic Approach to Late-Life Homelessness

SECTION II: PROJECT INSIGHTS FROM FOUR THEMATIC ANGLES

4 Age and Late-Life Homelessness

5 The Places of Late-Life Homelessness: Aging in "Undesirable" Locations

6 Late-Life Homelessness as a Reflection of Disadvantage over Time

7 Late-Life Homelessness as Social Exclusion and Abandonment

SECTION III: DIRECTIONS FOR CHANGE

8 The Need to Prevent Homelessness across the Life Course and into Late Life

9 The Moral Imperative: Political and Just Responses to Late-Life Homelessness

APPENDIX I: Canadian Definition of Homelessness (2017)

APPENDIX II: Comparative Table of Older People with Lived Experience

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Grenier, Amanda Late-Life Homelessness

ISBN:

9780228009542

OCLC:

1290485097