Against cognitive homelessness

Homelessness and Cognitive Impairment: An Exploratory Study in Tokyo, Japan.

OBJECTIVE Homelessness has frequently been associated with neuropsychological impairment. This has been observed using general screening tests for dementia as well as tests of more focal abilities, particularly executive function. Most studies have been of homeless individuals from North America with none reported from Japan. METHODS In this exploratory study we interviewed a sample of 16 hom...

Escaping Homelessness 1 Running head: ESCAPING HOMELESSNESS Escaping Homelessness: Anticipated and Perceived Facilitators

One study with two distinct sections was conducted to identify factors facilitating escape from homelessness. In section one, 58 homeless individuals rated possible facilitators of escape (factors they believed would help them become more independent and self-sufficient). In section two, 80 participants who had already exited homelessness rated the same facilitators (factors that would have hel...

Life shocks and homelessness.

We exploited an exogenous health shock-namely, the birth of a child with a severe health condition-to investigate the effect of a life shock on homelessness in large cities in the United States as well as the interactive effects of the shock with housing market characteristics. We considered a traditional measure of homelessness, two measures of housing instability thought to be precursors to h...

The New Homelessness Revisited.

The 'new homelessness' has drawn sustained attention from scholars over the past three decades. Definitional inconsistencies and data limitations rendered early work during this period largely speculative in nature. Thanks to conceptual, theoretical, and methodological progress, however, the research literature now provides a fuller understanding of homelessness. Contributions by sociologists a...

The determinants of homelessness.