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Healing Hands: Innovative Approaches for Mental Health Care and Homelessness

The relationship between homelessness and mental health conditions is complex and often broadly misunderstood. An estimated 20 to 25 percent of the unhoused population in the United States lives with chronic and severe mental illness, compared with 6 percent of the general population. Public conversations sometimes treat mental illness as the causal factor of homelessness, […]

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Healing Hands: Supporting Older People with Experiences of Homelessness in the United States

In the United States, there are approximately 55 million people over the age of 65, and 5 million of them live below the poverty line. Because 65 is considered the retirement age for “senior citizens,” social security benefits become available at that age, but studies have shown a clear upward trend in the proportion of

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