Homelessness Prevention Services
Coming of age: opportunities for older people under Supporting People
This UK report examines the challenges and proposes cost-effective solutions for Supporting People commissioners, their partner agencies and providers to meet the challenge of older homelessness.
The report considers the extent of the problem, routes into and out of homelessness and offers creative solutions.
2004
Homelessness among older people: A comparative study in three countries of prevention and alleviation
This report describes the genesis, design and preliminary findings of a study of the causes of homelessness among newly-homeless older people in England, Australia and the USA. The report concentrates on the Australian findings.
2004
Themes:
Women, Housing and Transitions Out of Homelessness
This is the second of two main reports for the project “Women, housing and transitions out of homelessness”. The earlier Stage 2 Report (Jerome et al, 2002) was based on an extensive, systematic review of the national and international literature on homelessness and specifically women’s homelessness.
2003
Women and Homelessness: Innovative Practice and Exit Pathways
The face of women now appears as a significant feature of the ‘new homelessness’.
While the ideology of the traditional nuclear family model persists in spite of changing demographic trends, it is argued that homelessness is defined in terms of men’s experiences and practices or men’s subjectivities hides women’s homelessness.
2003
The Achievements of a Multiservice Project for Older Homeless People
The aim of this article is to assess the ways in which older homeless people can be helped to return to more conventional accommodation and lives.
2000
Personal coping strategies of the elderly in housing emergencies
Client files of a city emergency service agency were randomly sampled to examine the post-emergency experience of different types of elderly clients. More than half of the emergencies were housing related. Interviews with these clients six months to three years later reveal a high rate of continuing need, institutionalization, and death.
1989
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