Homeless Services

Healing Hands: Tools to Help Clinicians Achieve Effective Discharge Planning

Too many people without financial resources and social supports cycle among hospitals, mental health facilities, foster care or group homes, correctional institutions, shelters, and the streets. These insidious “revolving doors” exacerbate homelessness and call for clinicians and communities to find coordinated solutions that are humane and cost effective. First steps often involve creative adaptation of […]

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Documenting Disability for Persons with Substance Use Disorders & Co-occurring Impairments: A Guide for Clinicians

Authors: Post P, Perret Y, Anderson S, Dalton M, Zevin B This manual is a guide to documenting medical impairments in support of applications for the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) disability benefits programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). It is primarily intended for health care providers in the United States

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A Case of Trench Foot in a Homeless Woman

This article describes a cold-related tissue injury that may be overlooked by healthcare practitioners who treat homeless clients: trench foot. Trench foot is a preventable condition which can be mitigated by early intervention but which, because it occurs at above-freezing temperatures, might go unrecognized and untreated. The sequelae of unrecognized and untreated trench foot can

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