Inhalt: | 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: Direction 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. "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. Drawing 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."-- |
