Housing Risks and Homelessness Among the Urban Elderly

by Marvin B. Sussman, Sharon Keigher, Marvin B Sussman

This groundbreaking book presents the latest research on homelessness among the urban elderly based on a comprehensive study of older people from a city emergency service agency in Chicago. Interviews with these elderly clients are analyzed to show how housing-related problems and substandard residential conditions lead to homelessness, institutionalization, and even death. In this timely volume, a variety of living situations that can lead to homelessness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560241659
• ISBN13: 9781560241652
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.8"