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| Later-life homelessness as disenfranchised grief | | Author(s) | Victoria F Burns, Tamara Sussman, Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 37, no 2, June 2018 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, June 2018 |
| Pages | pp 171-184 |
| Source | http://www.cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Homelessness ; Ageing process ; Attitude ; Emotions ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Although interest on older homelessness is gaining momentum little research has considered the experiences of first-time homelessness from the perspective of older adults themselves. This constructivist grounded-theory study addressed this gap by exploring how societal perceptions of homelessness and ageing shape access to housing, services and perceptions of self for 15 older adults residing in emergency homeless shelters in Montreal, Quebec. Findings revealed that homelessness evoked a grief response characterised by shock, despair, anger, and in some cases, relief. Connecting and receiving support from other shelter residents and staff helped participants to acknowledge and grieve their losses. However difficult shelter conditions, the stigma associated with ageing and homelessness, and not having their grief recognised or validated served to disenfranchise grief experiences. Conceptualising later-life homelessness as disenfranchised grief contributes to the ageing and homelessness literature while providing new avenues for understanding and validating the experiences of a growing population of vulnerable older adults. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180525243 A |
| Classmark | K4A: BG: DP: DL: TOB: 7S |
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