Early Mortality and Medical Complexity Among Medicolegal Cardiovascular Disease Deaths: Comparing Housed and Unhoused Decedents
These findings reemphasize the uniqueness and complexity of the risks for premature mortality in people experiencing homelessness. This underscores the call for social services and healthcare systems to be more responsive to the challenges faced by persons experiencing homelessness, with more integrated and targeted health and aging care interventions to address the specific needs of these marginalized individuals.
Authors
- Shriya Swamy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7787-4637)
- Shaya Khorsandi
- Ben King (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8248-5547)
Institutions
- University of Houston System (US)
- Houston Fertility Institute (US)
- Houston Health and Human Services Department (US)
- University of Houston (US)
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Gerontologist
- Published
- 2025-02-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaf056
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.82