Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among
older people is on the rise. In spite of growing media attention and new
academic research on the issue, older people often remain unrecognized
as a subpopulation in public policy, programs, and homeless strategies.
As such, they occupy a paradoxical position of being hypervisible while
remaining overlooked.Late-Life Homelessness is the first Canadian book
to address this often neglected issue. Basing her analysis on a
four-year ethnographic study of late-life homelessness in Montreal,
Canada, Amanda Grenier uses a critical gerontological perspective to
explore life at the intersection of aging and homelessness. She draws
attention to disadvantage over time and how the condition of being
unhoused disrupts a person's ability to age in place, resulting in
experiences of unequal aging. Weaving together findings from policy
documents, stakeholder insights, and observations and interviews with
older people, this book demonstrates how structures, organizational
practices, and relationships related to homelessness and aging come to
shape late life.Situated in the context of an aging population, rising
inequality, and declining social commitments, Late-Life Homelessness
stresses the moral imperative of responding justly to the needs of older
people as a means of mitigating the unequal aging of unhoused elders.
