Sheltering homeless seniors

In addition, the Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness between 2005 and 2008 (RSCH) found both an increase in the average age of the homeless to over 40 as well as a significant increase in the number of individuals over 45 years of age amongst the homeless. [...] At the start of this review, the committee acknowledged the lack of available research concerning homeless seniors. [...] This review will follow the common themes presented in the readings, which break down the issues of homeless seniors in the following contexts: Challenges and Characteristics of Homeless Seniors Physical and Mental Health Issues Best Practices How the literature was compiled The papers that make up the literature review are a combination of published research, grey literature, and government [...] The report highlighted that the impact of the two sets of variables, agency and communion, differ for older men and women. [...] Beatty and Berdahl (2011) present Statistics Canada projections, which show that seniors will make up 6.5% of the total Aboriginal population, 8% of the Métis population; 6% of the First Nation population; and 4% of the Inuit population by 2017 (p.