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Older Homeless People: Meeting their Continuing Health Care and Support Needs
Author(s): Sarah Gorton
Presentation on the types of health needs and access problems relating to health care faced by older homeless people. Covers data on the number of older homeless people, types of health problems, access to and discharge from health services. Recommendations include auditing by local authorities of the number and needs of older homeless people (using a methodology developed by the UK Coalition on Older Homelessness), and access to sheltered and ex...
Listening to Homeless People - Involving Homeless People in Evaluating Health Services
Author(s): Sarah Gorton, Elizabeth Manero, Clare Cochrane
Homeless people in London can experience a far lower standard of treatment and service from the NHS than members of the general public can expect. - Homeless people experience discrimination by GPs and GP practices, which impacts on the healthcare they receive – research has found that homeless people are 40 times more likely not to be registered with a GP than members of the general public (note i) and 81% of GPs feel it is more difficult for...
Involving Homeless People in Patient Forum Monitoring of A&E Services
The overall aim of the project is: To share Patients Forum influence and information with non -Forum members through joint statutory monitoring to generate improvements in services.
Homeless young women and pregnancy: Pregnancy in hostels for single homeless people
A high incidence of unplanned pregnancy among young women living in homelessness agencies: in a survey of 31 London hostels approximately 24 per cent of young women residents had been pregnant in the previous year. There was also a low rate of abortion relative to other women in a similar age group in inner deprived London, where the rate of abortion for 16 to 19 year-olds is 41.3 per cent. An estimated 76 per cent of young homeless women were go...
Guide to resettling older residents from hostels
Author(s): Sarah Gorton, Andrew Borrill
Work done by the Coalition on Older Homelessness, a project working to improve services for older homeless people at Homeless Link has illustrated that there are a significant number of older people in hostels, some of whom have needs that go beyond housing related support and who need long term care and support. Others have been there for many years and become institutionalised, have not learnt independent living skills and are frightened of mo...
Guide to models of delivering health services to homeless people
The target audience for this guide is primary care trusts, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations that are planning health and social care services for homeless people. The aims of the guide are: • To promote a holistic idea of health on the agenda of homelessness prevention • To encourage primary care trusts to plan services to reach their homeless population • To disseminate ideas and share experience so that the wheel do...
Health in Homelessness Strategies
Homelessness is not just a housing issue. A joint strategic response to the development of the homelessness review and strategy is important. The picture relating to health inequalities experienced by people who are homeless is a stark one. The picture from research into the health of the homeless population generally shows that in terms of the single homeless rough sleeper population: • 30-50% of homeless people experience mental health p...
Addressing the Needs of the Older Homeless Population
The Older Homelessness Project at Homeless Link, supportred by the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales, works to improve services for older homeless people who tend to be a marginalised and neglected section of the homeless population. This guidance draws together work that has been done over a couple of years into a set of recommendations on addressing the needs of older homeless people.