What policymakers and the general public need to recognize is that the homeless are aging faster than the general population in the U.S. This shift in the demographics has major implications for how municipalities and health care providers deal with homeless populations.It's as simple as this: People given ineffectual health and dental care information become sick and unemployable.
In the early 1990s, only 11 percent of the adult homeless population was aged 50 and over. That percentage was up to 37 by 2003. Today half of America’s homeless are over 50.
In fact, people born in the second half of the baby boom (1955-1964) have had an elevated risk of homelessness compared to other age groups throughout their lives.
And then they can't afford any treatment to get better. Or protein. Or a place to clean themselves. Or to even get out of the cold.
And in that case, alcohol really is an effective and affordable way to control their metabolism and immune systems.
This is the group of people who were told to cut fat and eat more fcking carbs.
Given cereal for breakfast and antibiotics like candy.
The Guinea-pig Generation.
See the Vortex.
