Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Context, Frame, and Methodology
6. Setting the Context 3
7. The State of Knowledge on Late-Life Homelessness 23
8. A Critical Perspective and Ethnographic Approach to Late-life Homelessness 44
9. Project Insights from Four Thematic Angles
10. Age and Late-Life Homelessness 69
11. The Places of Late-Life Homelessness: Aging in “Undesirable” Locations 99
12. Late-Life Homelessness as a Reflection of Disadvantage over Time 127
13. Late-Life Homelessness as Social Exclusion and Abandonment 157
14. Directions for Change
15. The Need to Prevent Homelessness across the Life Course and into Late Life 187
16. The Moral Imperative: Political and Just Responses to Late-Life Homelessness 215
17. Canadian Definition of Homelessness 243
18. Comparative Table of Older People with Lived Experience 245
19. Notes 247
20. References 265
21. Index 329