“I Haven’t Grieved Yet…”: The Experiences of Older Homeless Persons Living in Long-Term Transitional Housing
If left unattended, grief and loss can threaten older homeless persons' reaffiliation when relocating to transitional housing. Adopting a humanistic-existential grief perspective could go a long way in supporting the development of housing policies, programs, and practices that nurture the time and space required to attend to grief and truly address precarity in the final stages of life.
Authors
- Tamara Sussman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1226-6450)
- Christine A. Walsh
- Atiya Mahmood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4986-0979)
- Diandra Serrano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2504-091X)
- M. Gauthier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4303-027X)
- Sarah L. Canham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0421-2612)
- Émilie Cormier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3263-1619)
- Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3163-8384)
Institutions
- Université du Québec à Montréal (CA)
- University of Calgary (CA)
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- University of Utah (US)
- Institute of Aging (CA)
- McGill University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Gerontologist
- Published
- 2025-02-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaf064
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.63