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Phillips, Darren, and Ahmed Bawa Kuyini. "Consumer participation at Specialist Homelessness Services: Do the homeless have a say in the services they receive?" International Social Work 61, no. 6 (March 20, 2017): 1095–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872817695644.

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This study in the state of New South Wales, Australia, explored what Specialist Homelessness Services are currently implementing in regard to consumer participation, what is working and what barriers to consumer participation have been encountered by both service users and providers. Three staff members, one consumer volunteer and 10 homeless persons from three services were interviewed. The interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. The study found that while consumers have some opportunities to participate, and that participation is beneficial, there were barriers to participation, such as staff attitudes and the nature of the consumer group. The implications of these findings for staff, consumers and future policy direction are discussed.
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MacWilliams, Judy, Michael Bramwell, Sally Brown, and Margaret O'Connor. "Reaching out to Ray: delivering palliative care services to a homeless person in Melbourne, Australia." International Journal of Palliative Nursing 20, no. 2 (February 2014): 83–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2014.20.2.83.

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Teesson, Maree, and Neil Buhrich. "Prevalence of schizophrenia in a refuge for homeless men: a five year follow-up." Psychiatric Bulletin 14, no. 10 (October 1990): 597–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.14.10.597.

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Until the mid 1950s, the management of persons suffering from chronic mental illness in Australia was the responsibility of the large mental hospital. With the advent of psychotropic drugs and concern about the ‘negative’ influence of the institutional environment on patients there was a shift to shorter but more frequent periods of hospital admission. As the pattern of shorter admissions increased, community services for the mentally ill were expanded in the early 1970s. Between 1950 and 1985 in the state of New South Wales, the numbers of patients in large mental hospitals decreased from 256 to 55 per 100 000 population. However, no special arrangements for accommodation, as distinct from treatment, were made for these ex-mental hospital patients. The decline in hospital numbers can be attributed to a general reduction in the length of hospital stays. Initially, there seemed to be no pressing need for extra accommodation in the community as the provision of social security benefits was adequate to allow patients without homes to afford basic accommodation, a situation different to that in the United States (Lamb, 1984).
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Armitt, Kellie-Ann, Janette Young, and Rose Boucaut. "A Qualitative Analysis of Management Perspectives on Seeking to Implement the Foster Cat Project in Residential Aged Care in the Context of COVID-19." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 1 (December 31, 2022): 752. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010752.

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This study explores the challenges facing a pilot project aiming to foster homeless cats in an Australian residential aged care facility. The global COVID-19 pandemic stalled the project but also presented an opportunity to gain reflective insights into the perceived barriers, enablers and tensions involved in seeking to implement pet animal inclusion in residential aged care. Perspectives from aged care management, animal welfare services and researchers/project managers were all sought using semi-structured interviews, and themes developed using a qualitative descriptive analysis. Perceived barriers to the project before and after the pandemic were not dissimilar with four key themes emerging: competing priorities, risk and safety, resources, and timing. All existed differently across stakeholder groups creating tensions to be negotiated. These themes are then mapped to the competencies established by the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) for undertaking health promotion, demonstrating that this skill base can be drawn on when seeking to implement human–animal inclusive projects. Creating supportive healthful environments for frail older persons is a moral imperative of extended lives. Health Promotion skills as outlined in the Ottawa Charter and IUHPE competencies for health promotion workers need to be extended to include animal services, agendas and cultures to promote multi-species health promotion into the future.
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Simon, Anna Brown, and Zane Robinson Wolf. "Mini-Ethnography and Case Studies on Homeless Persons’ Primary Care Needs in an Urban Community." International Journal for Human Caring 26, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 215–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.20467/humancaring-d-21-00003.

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Homeless persons struggle to access healthcare services and obtain resources to meet basic needs. This study used mini-ethnography, case study, and survey to describe primary care needs of homeless persons in two Pennsylvania cities. Data were obtained using participant observation, field notes, surveys, and document analysis. Five homeless persons and four community volunteers were interviewed. Homeless persons had some options for obtaining primary care services. It was difficult to take prescribed medications and acquire preventive services. Their symptoms often went unattended. Dedicated community volunteers and community agencies assisted homeless persons to obtain basic needs and healthcare services.
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White, S. E. "Health Care Services and Homeless People: The Missing Link." Australian Journal of Primary Health 6, no. 4 (2000): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py00038.

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The paper describes an effective and innovative model of referral and service provision, which has been developed collaboratively between the Royal District Nursing Service Homeless Persons' Program and four inner urban public hospitals. The aim of the Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) Homeless Persons Program (HPP) is twofold: to provide high quality, holistic health care to homeless people and to improve their access to the mainstream public health system. Our fundamental belief is that health is both a personal resource and a human right. The experience of homelessness impacts directly on physical, emotional and social wellbeing, resulting in a perpetual cycle of ill health and transience. Traditionally, homeless people have met with significant difficulties when accessing mainstream health systems. In 1991, the RDNS Homeless Persons' Program began to develop formal policies and protocols with a public hospital emergency department, in relation to the care and discharge planning of homeless people. This collaborative model of referral and continuity has since been refined and replicated in three other inner urban public hospitals. It now forms the basis of an effective, integrated network that acts to improve not only the quality of care offered by the hospitals, but more importantly, the quality of life experienced by the homeless people involved.
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Jagpal, Parbir, Nigel Barnes, Richard Lowrie, Amitava Banerjee, and Vibhu Paudyal. "Clinical Pharmacy Intervention for Persons Experiencing Homelessness: Evaluation of Patient Perspectives in Service Design and Development." Pharmacy 7, no. 4 (November 13, 2019): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy7040153.

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Persons experiencing homelessness have a high prevalence of severe mental health problems, alcohol dependence, substance misuse and infectious hepatitis C, and face up to twelve times higher mortality rates compared to the general population. They also face barriers to accessing healthcare. However, clinical pharmacy services are currently not available to homeless populations in England. The aim of this study was to conduct public involvement sessions with persons experiencing homelessness with a view to inform the design of patient-centred clinical pharmacy healthcare services. Qualitative methodology was used, using a focus group with homeless persons from emergency shelters and one to one engagement with those sleeping rough, using a topic guide. A total of nine homeless persons took part—seven males and two females. The participants of the sessions said that patient-centred clinical pharmacy services delivered for homeless persons would address many of their unmet needs around access to medicines, their understanding of prescribed medicines and holistic management of their health. The service would be able to make a positive impact on their health outcomes by screening for health conditions, facilitating better integration across services, referral and liaison with other services, and minimising misuse of prescribed medicines. The findings of this study will be used to inform the development, implementation and evaluation of a patient-centred clinical pharmacy service tailored to meet the specific needs of the homeless population.
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James, Franklin J. "Counting homeless persons with surveys of users of services for the homeless." Housing Policy Debate 2, no. 3 (January 1991): 733–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511482.1991.9521071.

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McNeil, Ryan, and Manal Guirguis-Younger. "Illicit drug use as a challenge to the delivery of end-of-life care services to homeless persons: Perceptions of health and social services professionals." Palliative Medicine 26, no. 4 (April 4, 2011): 350–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269216311402713.

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Homeless persons tend to die younger than the housed population and have complex, often unmet, end-of-life care needs. High levels of illicit drug use among this population are a particular challenge for health and social services professionals involved in end-of-life care services delivery. This article explores the challenges of end-of-life care services to homeless illicit drug users based on data collected during a national study on end-of-life care services delivery to homeless persons in Canada. The authors conducted qualitative interviews with 50 health and social services professionals involved in health services delivery to homeless persons in five cities. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically. Themes were organised into two domains. First, barriers preventing homeless illicit drug users from accessing end-of-life care services, such as competing priorities (e.g. withdrawal management), lack of trust in healthcare providers and discrimination. Second, challenges to end-of-life care services delivery to this population in health and social care settings, including non-disclosure of illicit drug use, pain and symptom management, interruptions in care, and lack of experience with addictions. The authors identify a need for increased research on the role of harm reduction in end-of-life care settings to address these challenges.
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DiBlasio, Frederick A., and John R. Belcher. "Gender differences among homeless persons: Special services for women." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 65, no. 1 (1995): 131–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0079596.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Homeless persons Services for Australia"

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Ortiz, Valdez Miguel Alberto. "Integrating faith into social services for homeless immigrants." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Millspaugh, Gary F. "Use of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act by two small cities." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1991. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Card, Amanda Nicole, and Heather Nicole Sylvester. "Service utilization among the mentally ill homeless." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3143.

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This study conducted in-depth interviews with 11 homeless or formerly homeless individuals at eh Central City Lutheran Mission. The focus of this research project is mental health service utilization among the homeless in San Bernardino. A wide array of services are available to the mentally ill homeless in this area, however services offered often do not meet the needs of this population.
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Atkinson, Joellen Marie. "A program evaluation of a structured homeless shelter." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1255.

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This study compared homeless shelters, one was a structured homeless shelter and the other a non-structured homeless shelter, evaluating the residents' level of social functioning and level of self-sufficiency at both shelters. A structured shelter may offer counseling, parenting classes, money management, nutrition classes, a 12-step program and support groups, and after school and summer programs for youths. Whereas a non-structured shelter is one that only offers a place to sleep and some food.
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Garde, Maria Salomé. "Mentally ill homeless and companion pets." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2186.

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The present study assessed the relationship between mentally ill homeless and their companion pets and questioned if the pets acted as a barrier for them to receive shelter and other services. The study also sought to find if pets acted as a communication tool between this population and society. themselves because they are mentally vulnerable and victims of a mental disorder.
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Robinson, Miranda Dawn. "Do the homeless choose to remain homeless?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1366.

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Parks, Susan Carol. "A needs assessment of the homeless and the lack of affordable housing programs for the homeless." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3297.

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The purpose of this study was to interview the social workers that work with the homeless population within the Inland Empire. Explored were the social workers perceptions of and attitudes about the homeless population as well as hoping to understand the lack of housing for the homeless and to find out what can be done to provide housing for them.
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Prasad, Vandana. "A study to understand the barriers and facilitating factors for accessing health care amongst adult street dwellers in New Delhi, India." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5387.

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Urban health policy has remained a neglected area in India. The homeless remain the most deprived, neglected and stigmatized group amongst the urban poor. While they suffer from a large burden of disease, there are a variety of reasons that prevent them from accessing the available health care services – particularly in the public health sector. Some interventions by concerned non-governmental organisations have attempted to circumvent the barriers to health care access faced by the homeless but these have not been well documented or assessed. This study seeks to establish both the barriers and facilitating factors for access to health care and health care seeking amongst adult street dwellers in an area of New Delhi which is known for a high concentration of homeless persons. Using a qualitative approach 18 adult street dwellers (both male and female) were individually interviewed – along with 6 key informants working in the public and non-governmental health sector. This was accompanied by a process of participant-observation. The results were analyzed by identifying recurrent themes associated with barriers and facilitating factors for access to health care by the homeless, following which a set of recommendations related to the homeless, have been developed so as to inform those working in the public health sector. In terms of ethics, informed consent was taken from each interviewee and they were explicitly given the option not to participate without adverse consequences to themselves. If any participant was found with acute health problems immediate assistance was facilitated. The study reveals a number of barriers faced by the homeless in attempting to access health care services. While minor ailments are taken care of by local private practitioners, they need to access public health care services for major problems. There they encounter many barriers due to the lack of money, delays and being shunted from place to place. Moreover, they are not able to get admission for reasons such as lack of address and the lack of an attendant. Facilitating factors include assistance for transportation, facilitation of admissions, arranging money for out of pocket expenditures on drugs and consumables, arranging blood and providing after-care. The role of social contacts in enabling access is also demonstrated through this study. The recommendations that emerge from the study are intended to assist in policy advocacy towards a comprehensive health care system for them, as well as assist health care providers to provide a better service for homeless people.
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Anderson, Queenesther Marie. "Women and homelessness in San Bernardino County: Causes, demographics, services, and hope." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3108.

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This study examines the conditions of hopelessness in the city of San Bernardino. The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which women and men's accessing of services for homelessness differ. This study employs a survey administered at an event given specifically for the homeless population in San Bernardino, and the differences between men and women and their access to support is documented.
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Willoughby, Kate. "The moderating influence of resilience on childhood trauma : towards an understanding in homeless persons." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/163083/.

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Resilience is offered as a theoretical framework from which the competent functioning of a small proportion of survivors of childhood trauma can be understood. Despite the likely deleterious impact of abuse and neglect some individuals continue to thrive and achieve positive outcomes. The literature investigating protective factors implicated in resilience to childhood trauma is reviewed. Studies indicate that certain individual and environmental protective factors provide encouraging experiences and promote positive adaptation. Although current literature needs to move to a more process orientated approach for investigating resilience, existing findings offer valuable insights for the direction of prevention and intervention programmes for at-risk populations. This focus on strengths rather than deficits paves the way for innovative approaches especially with disenfranchised groups who might otherwise be less receptive, for instance individuals marginalised from society such as homeless individuals. On this basis, the empirical study investigated the relationship between childhood trauma and maladaptive coping and the relative influence of resilience, in homeless individuals. A significant relationship between childhood physical abuse and maladaptive coping existed, which was moderated by high levels of resilience. It is postulated that resilience in the homeless population may have a greater protective effect against maladaptive coping as severity of childhood physical abuse decreases. Studies replicating these findings in this and other disenfranchised groups are essential in order to fully understand the role of resilience and potential benefit of promoting and enhancing resilience and coping in reducing tenancy breakdown and therefore chronic and repeated homelessness.
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Books on the topic "Homeless persons Services for Australia"

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Taskforce, Western Australia State Homelessness. Addressing homelessness in Western Australia. Perth, W.A.]: State Homelessness Taskforce, 2002.

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National Youth Commission Inquiry into Youth Homelessness (Australia). Australia's homeless youth: A report of the National Youth Commission inquiry into youth homelessness. Brunswick, Vic: National Youth Commission, 2008.

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National Youth Commission Inquiry into Youth Homelessness (Australia). Australia's homeless youth: A report of the National Youth Commission inquiry into youth homelessness. Brunswick, Vic: National Youth Commission, 2008.

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National Youth Commission Inquiry into Youth Homelessness (Australia). Australia's homeless youth: A report of the National Youth Commission inquiry into youth homelessness. Brunswick, Vic: National Youth Commission, 2008.

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Chamberlain, Chris. Counting the homeless 2006: South Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health & Welfare, 2009.

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Chamberlain, Chris. Counting the homeless 2006: Western Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health & Welfare, 2009.

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Chamberlain, Chris. Counting the homeless 2001: Western Australia. Hawthorn, Vic: Swinburne University and RMIT University, 2004.

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Jim, Ward. Homeless voices. Toronto: Healthy City Office, 1998.

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Dame, University of Notre. The homeless. [Notre Dame, Ind.]: Golden Dome Productions, 1990.

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Office, Toronto Healthy City. Homeless, not helpless: Report of the homeless persons outreach project. [Toronto: Healthy City Office], 1990.

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Book chapters on the topic "Homeless persons Services for Australia"

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Caro-González, A., A. Serra, X. Albala, C. E. Borges, D. Casado-Mansilla, J. Colobrans, E. Iñigo, J. Millard, A. Mugarra-Elorriaga, and Renata Petrevska Nechkoska. "The Three MuskEUteers." In Contributions to Management Science, 3–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11065-8_1.

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AbstractUnder the inspiring and aspiring title: Paving the way for pushing and pursuing a “one for all, all for one” triple transition: social, green, and digital: The Three MuskEUteers, a group of remarkable co-authors and contributors have developed radically new forward-looking visions, principles, approaches, and action recommendations for an attuned indivisible social, green, and digital transition.The triple transition is aimed at helping humanity gather around a life-sustaining purpose, as opposed to life-destroying one in terms of wars of all kinds (military, economic, political, etc.); nature decay and wreckage (carbon footprint, plastic pollution, soil poisoning, etc.); human alienation (favelas, homeless persons, refugee camps, child malnutrition, poverty, exclusion of any kind); and geographic imbalances with empty rural spaces and overcrowded megacities (creating difficult access of rural and/or remote population to care, health, and other essential services; difficulty of urban population to contact with natural environments).The work highlights the urgent need to speed up a third social transition (Within this social transition dimension we understand the socio-cultural scope as any social shift implies a cultural transition and vice versa, with its very deep implications.), in addition to the green and digital transitions more widely recognised by the international community. Innovation, or a European industry-led twin transition aiming for climate neutrality and digital leadership, cannot be supported without a firm, responsive, responsible social and environmental engagement. Neither is it possible to tackle a JUST triple transition which is not firmly rooted in worthwhile human development, underpinned by the Sustainable Development Goals. And none of these transitions can go separately and/or isolated; they all need to intertwine around the notion of (more, firmer, and determined) just transition.European society is presented as a huge “co-laboratory” for this “all for one, one for all” boundaryless triple transition to respond to the urgent radical changes demanded by humanity and by the planet. The chapter proposes a radically new vision to pursue a non-explored transformative way to ideate, design, develop, and deliver science, innovation, and collaboration through experimentation and learning, and throughout multi-stakeholder engagement from the n-helix spectrum. It proposes systemic innovation tactics for the “how” (green, techno-digital), for the strategic “what” (green, social), for the purposeful “why” (green, social), and for the operational “how best” (green, social, techno-digital) within the governing principles of eco-centric society. This encompasses: Courageous goal-aligned alternatives, as a shift to new (yet ancient) principles of eco-centric rather than ego-centric behaviour. The adoption of a “complex system mind-set” to build up dynamic, context-sensitive, and holistic approaches to co-design mission and purpose-driven actions, outcomes, outputs, and no-harm impacts. The ignition of the transformative capacity of all forms of collaboration (international, interdisciplinary, intersectoral, intergenerational, inter-institutional, inter-genders) vs hierarchy as alternative governance and distribution models to overcome the unjust and unsustainable biased status quo within evolving, adaptable, flexible, and transformational n-helix ecosystems. The Three MuskEUteers, deeply anchored in European values (human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, rule of law, and human rights), will pave the way and drive humanity towards the achievement of the ambitious, but achievable, targets of the United Nations 2030 Global Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals.Europe can be the initiator of co-laboratory experiments where social change drives the “all for one, one for all” dream into transforming this three-prong transition into possible real good ecosystems working.
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Sharma, Neha, Joshua D. Brown, and Paul Summergrad. "Neurocognitive impairment in homeless persons." In Homelessness and Mental Health, edited by João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Antonio Ventriglio, and Dinesh Bhugra, 191–214. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198842668.003.0015.

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Cognitive capability impacts individual functioning in every life domain such as social, emotional, academic, and occupational. Understanding the mechanism through which cognitive impairment can influence an individual’s susceptibility to homelessness is essential to providing effective services for improving health outcomes among this population. This chapter details the relationship between cognitive impairment and homelessness, with a focus on defining the clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines. It also discusses the bidirectional cause-and-effect association between homelessness and cognitive impairment, particularly reviewing disorders of cognition including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, childhood trauma, malnutrition, traumatic brain injury, and substance abuse. Lastly, this chapter uses the clinical correlations taken from available literature between homelessness and cognitive impairment to make recommendations on potential interventions that aim to address an individual’s cognitive skills as a relevant determinant of one’s functional capacity.
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Eyrich-Garg, Karin M., and Eric Rice. "Cyber Behavior of Homeless Adolescents and Adults." In Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior, 284–91. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0315-8.ch024.

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A common stereotype is that persons experiencing homelessness have no access to digital and Information Technology. Even if they could obtain access, they would not have the skills necessary to use it. In this entry, the authors examine the scientific literature focused on the Internet use of persons experiencing homelessness. Both homeless adolescents and adults use the Internet at public libraries, social service agencies, and via mobile phone. They use the Internet to obtain employment and housing, seek services, remain socially connected, and have fun. The Internet has enormous potential as a tool to improve the lives of persons experiencing homelessness in terms of social support, advocacy, connection to and rating of services, online education, online intervention scheduling, and online intervention delivery. This field is new, and its development should prove both exciting and vital for the assessment, research, and intervention of persons experiencing homelessness.
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O’Toole, Thomas P. "Primary Care for Homeless Veterans." In Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans, 61–76. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190695132.003.0004.

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In many ways homelessness is both a health issue and a reflection of the viability of our social safety net and health care system. Despite advances made in our understanding of how to best provide care and assist homeless persons, significant health disparities and gaps in care persist, as does the conundrum of chronic and persistent homelessness. Primary care tailored to homeless persons provides a unique opportunity to address some of these health disparities and vulnerabilities as well as the platform on which to engage them in an array of additional services over a continuum of time and need. Core tenets of the most successful models capture several key elements: (1) availability of care based on an open-access, on-demand, and non-contingent model; (2) one-stop, wrap-around services that are integrated and coordinated; (3) capacity for intensive, longitudinal and community/social service–linked case management; (4) high-quality, evidence-based, and culturally sensitive care that both destigmatizes seeking care and supports professionalism among the providers delivering that care; and (5) accountability to specific measurable goals and outcomes. However, it will not happen without deliberate planning and organization and a commitment to the capacity needed to bring services to scale.
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Willison, Charley E. "A Way Forward." In Ungoverned and Out of Sight, 167–80. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197548325.003.0008.

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Overcoming challenges associated with decentralization and policy conflict across policy interests to address chronic homelessness in municipalities across the United States will be a big hurdle requiring substantial changes. Primary recommendations for reform include, first, aligning Continuums of Care with municipal government to ensure Continuums have access to necessary resources and governmental authority to design and implement policy across the variety of policy spaces including housing, healthcare, behavioral health, policing, and incarceration. Second, improving participatory equity in homeless policy decision-making to include minority groups and persons who are currently or formerly homeless will improve policy design and implementation to ensure policies targeting persons experiencing homelessness work to their intended goals and protect policy processes from bias toward economic elite stakeholders in pluralistic settings. Lastly, steps are recommended to align tangential state-level policies providing services for persons experiencing chronic homelessness but, by virtue of not being designed to target chronic homelessness, fail in implementation.
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Heese, Jan, Wayne Renkin, and Kathryn van den Berg. "A practical guide to providing health services to homeless persons using community-oriented primary care." In Facing homelessness: Finding inclusionary, collaborative solutions, 163–87. AOSIS, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2021.bk239.06.

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Castaldelli-Maia, João Mauricio, Antonio Ventriglio, and Dinesh Bhugra. "Homelessness and mental health." In Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry, edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Driss Moussaoui, and Tom J. Craig, 301–8. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198861478.003.0032.

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Abstract There is considerable research evidence indicating that rates of psychiatric disorders are higher in homeless individuals, although, in some cases, psychiatric illnesses may lead to homelessness. It is likely that in spite of high rates of illness, individuals who are homeless or are in insecure housing may be more reluctant to seek help. Thus, it is of paramount importance to enable homeless people with mental illness to access mental health services easily, which is a worldwide challenge. Homelessness and psychiatric disorders are both strongly affected by other social determinants and thus may feed into each other. A significant improvement in the health of these persons can be through outreach programmes leading to early detection of psychiatric disorders. In view of the great vulnerability to which the homeless are exposed, the special psychological treatments they may need are obvious, but interventions require joined up thinking between health, housing, employment, education, justice, and other ministries. Each nation may need to develop optimal models of social care and rehabilitation that rely on the particular research-driven needs of homeless people with mental illnesses. In order to improve the availability of services to the homeless, it is also important to consider and value their experiences and opinions. Many underprivileged groups such as refugees and migrants, adolescents, those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, LGBTIQ, and homeless individuals may need extra input. The well-recognized association between homelessness and mental illness needs to be addressed at multiple levels in any society.
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"Conclusions." In Homelessness and Mental Health, edited by João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Antonio Ventriglio, Dinesh Bhugra, João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Antonio Ventriglio, and Dinesh Bhugra, 391–96. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198842668.003.0027.

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The devastating association between homelessness and mental illness must be approached at all levels of governmental policy in each country considering levels of homelessness and resources allocated accordingly. There needs to be joined-up approach across departments. It is of paramount importance to enable homeless people with mental illness to easily access mental health services. The rates of mental illnesses across nations, be they high-income countries or low- and middle-income countries, are broadly similar. A significant improvement in the health of these persons like others depends upon early detection of and early intervention for psychiatric disorders. In view of the great vulnerability to which the homeless are exposed, the specialized psychological treatments they need is obvious. Chronic pain, dental issues, and COVID-19 are most serious examples of clinical conditions that may make treatment of the homeless more difficult than that of the general population. Every nation needs to develop optimal models of social care and rehabilitation that rely on the particular local research-driven needs of homeless people with mental illnesses.
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Pinero De Plaza, Maria A., Alline Beleigoli, Alexandra Mudd, Matthew Tieu, Penelope McMillan, Michael Lawless, Rebecca Feo, Mandy Archibald, and Alison Kitson. "Not Well Enough to Attend Appointments: Telehealth Versus Health Marginalisation." In Healthier Lives, Digitally Enabled. IOS Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/shti210013.

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Temporary telehealth initiatives during COVID-19 have been life-changing for many people in Australia; for the first time Frail, Homebound, and Bedridden Persons (FHBP) equitably received primary healthcare services, like Australians without a disability. However, government changes to telehealth funding mean that since July 2020 telehealth is only available for those who have attended a face-to-face appointment in the last 12 months, thus excluding FHBP. This paper illustrates the reported health exclusion and marginalisation of FHBP. We reviewed the literature and surveyed 164 Australian adults (27% homebound people and 73% affiliated persons) to ascertain their opinions and thoughts on potential strategies to tackle issues associated with FHBP’s current circumstances. Results demonstrate that digital technologies and telehealth services are ethical imperatives. Policymakers, clinicians, and health researchers must work with end-users (community-based participation) to create an inclusive healthcare service.
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Stein, Michael D., and Sandro Galea. "Maybe the End of HIV." In Pained, 167–70. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197510384.003.0047.

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This chapter focuses on HIV, which has been our most politically charged illness and a defining health challenge of our time. The world of HIV care over the last two decades has seen a great, almost miraculous, revolution. Today, a 35-year-old who was HIV-infected in 2018 and takes her daily medication adherently has the life expectancy of a 35-year-old without HIV infection. Monthly injections of long-acting HIV drugs look to be as good as daily pills at suppressing the virus, creating easier treatment. Despite these stunning advances, disparities in detection and care characterize the disease. The epidemic has shifted to groups that are hard to test, hard to get started on preventive care, and hard to keep on daily medication—persons who inject stimulants, men on the down-low, the mentally ill, the homeless, and the rural poor with no health insurance. Lack of information, lack of trust of providers, unfamiliarity with services, and refusals of testing and treatment due to social rejection and privacy concerns make the delivery of care more challenging for these groups. Even among persons enrolled in AIDS clinical trials who have found their way to cutting-edge medical treatment, blacks and Hispanics have poorer outcomes. As such, reaching an end to HIV will require new attention to health systems and social stigma, to geography, to housing and outreach, to the long work of public health.
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Conference papers on the topic "Homeless persons Services for Australia"

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Davelaar, Maarten, Lia Van Doorn, Aly Gruppen, and Jeroen Knevel. "Welcome in my backyard: how having good neighbours can help ending homelessness." In CARPE Conference 2019: Horizon Europe and beyond. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/carpe2019.2019.10194.

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In the Netherlands, the city of Utrecht is leading in providing adequate accommodation through mixed housing projects for ‘regular’ tenants and people previously living in homeless services or protected housing facilities. ‘New’ homeless persons also obtain the possibility for making a new start, instead of having to depend on shelters first. The concept of mixed housing, not to be confused with mixed income housing, relates in our definition to small and medium-sized (up to 500 residents) housing projects that are home to different groups of people who intentionally live next to each other, connect and engage in joint activities.In this paper, we examine three projects, with mainly self-contained dwellings: ‘Groene Sticht’ (since 2003), a small neighbourhood with 69 regular tenants and home-owners, and 35 ex-homeless persons; ‘Parana’ (2014), a purpose build complex with 24 regular and 44 (ex-)homeless individuals/families; ‘Majella Wonen’ (2016), older basic, post-war dwellings with 39 regular tenants and 35 homeless persons/families. These price-winning projects, co-created by a homeless service, social integration services and a social housing provider are built on an innovative concept of social management, with a high level of self-organisation. All residents are fully eligible members of the residents-committees and take responsibility for activities such as festivities, gardening, and the selection of new tenants. If necessary, ex-homeless inhabitants receive individualised support.We discuss structures and mechanisms that help homeless people feel at home amidst their (new) neighbours and foster their social integration. In addition, we identify several tensions that hamper integration and analyse the ways in which both residents and professionals try to tackle these obstacles.We collected data (2016 -2018) through the participatory meetings of a Community of Practice on Mixed housing, the study of documents, in-depth interviews with inhabitants of the housing complexes, focus group-sessions with professionals and interviews with local stakeholders.Based on this research we will apply for follow up funding. Through national funds and/or European funds.
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