Homeless people ’s experiences of the illicit drug supply during COVID-19
This study aims to explore homeless people’s experiences of the drug supply in the UK during COVID-19.Eight homeless people who use illicit drugs, residing in hostels for homeless people in Southampton, participated in semi-structured one-on-one telephone-based interviews.A thematic analysis revealed five themes: availability of drugs, presence of dealers, quality of drugs, finances and personal experiences. Participants reported varying experiences of the drug supply, with lockdown measures expressed as the main reason for reduced supplies, as users found it difficult to find dealers and generate income for purchasing d...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - March 23, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Susanna James Nick Maguire Source Type: research

A critical discourse analysis of older women ’s representation in housing and homelessness
A critical discourse analysis of older women’s representation in housing and homelessness Taylah Brown, Charlotte Smedley, Jacqui Cameron Housing, Care and Support, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Despite a significant evidence base illustrating the issue of housing insecurity and homelessness experienced by women over the age of 55 in Australia [Pawson et al., 2018; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), 2021b; Mission Australia 2022; Per Capita 2022], there continues to be a knowledge gap in the representation of older women in current Federal and New South Wales (NSW) State Government housing...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - March 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Taylah Brown Charlotte Smedley Jacqui Cameron Source Type: research

Analysis of structured and unstructured stakeholders ’ motivational support of Ghanaian slum communities
This study aims to examine the motivations and supports of stakeholders in the slum communities, Ghana.Two-stage methodologies were used for data collection. Published Google News articles about the phenomenon as well as exploratory qualitative in-depth interviews with 15 participants.The evidence shows that structured and unstructured are the two main categories of stakeholders operating in the space of slums in Ghana. It shows that stakeholders are motivated by their objectives and ethical or moral obligations to provide support in the form of consumables, housing and finance to the slums.Because of the data collection r...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - January 4, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anthony Nkrumah Agyabeng Robertson Neequaye Kotey Hannah E.A. Acquah Joshua Ofori Essiam Gifty Enyonam Ketemepi Akorfa Wuttor Kofi Hilla Avusuglo Source Type: research

The Frailty, Health and Care Needs Assessment (FHCNA): development of the questionnaire and testing its feasibility in homeless hostel accommodation
This study aims to co-develop a Frailty, Health and Care Needs Assessment (FHCNA) questionnaire for people experiencing homelessness and explore the feasibility of its use by non-clinical staff in homeless hostels.The FHCNA, aimed at identifying frailty and other health and care priorities for people experiencing homelessness, was co-designed in workshops (online and in person) with homelessness and inclusion health staff. Its feasibility was tested by staff and their clients in two hostels, with pre- and post-study focus groups held with hostel staff to gain input and feedback.The FHCNA was co-developed and then used to c...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - December 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Caroline Shulman Rafi Rogans-Watson Natasha Palipane Dan Lewer Michelle Yeung Briony F. Hudson Source Type: research

To stay or go? Understanding ambivalence toward moving on from supportive housing among supportive housing residents in a Moving On initiative
This study aims to better understand the factors that influence residents’ decisions on whether to leave or stay in these services.This study examines ambivalence toward leaving PSH using interviews with 40 MOI participants. Data were analyzed using framework analysis.“Pull factors” for staying in PSH included secure benefits, partial autonomy and being comfortable enough. Participants viewed PSH as their cheapest option and a protective force. They also described PSH as “semi-independence” and expressed concern with a lack of privacy, free movement and unwanted supervision.To the best of the authors’ knowledge...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - November 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kimberly Livingstone Emmy Tiderington Source Type: research

To stay or go?: Understanding ambivalence toward moving on from supportive housing among supportive housing residents in a Moving On initiative
This study aims to better understand the factors that influence residents’ decisions on whether to leave or stay in these services.This study examines ambivalence toward leaving PSH using interviews with 40 MOI participants. Data were analyzed using framework analysis.“Pull factors” for staying in PSH included secure benefits, partial autonomy and being comfortable enough. Participants viewed PSH as their cheapest option and a protective force. They also described PSH as “semi-independence” and expressed concern with a lack of privacy, free movement and unwanted supervision.To the best of the authors’ knowledge...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - November 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kimberly Livingstone Emmy Tiderington Source Type: research

Health care support systems for informal settlement rental housing during the COVID-19 season: landlord ’s perspective
Health care support systems for informal settlement rental housing during the COVID-19 season: landlord’s perspective Fauster Agbenyo, Miller Williams Appau, Eunice Yorgri Housing, Care and Support, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to examine landlords’ health support systems to tenants to control COVID-19 in selected informal settlement rental housing (ISRH) in Ghana, dwelling on landlords’ views.The paper used the concurrent imbedded mixed-methods approach and grounded the findings in the socio-ecological theory. The authors collected both qualitative and quantitative data from 242 land...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - November 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Fauster Agbenyo Miller Williams Appau Eunice Yorgri Source Type: research

Social housing development: a case study in Bac Ninh province, Vietnam
Trung Nguyen Dinh, Nam Pham Phuong Housing, Care and Support, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to assess the overall social housing development, point out factors affecting it and propose some policy implications for social housing development.The research investigated investors, credit institutions and officials involved in social housing development. Bac Ninh province currently has 51 social housing projects that have been and are being implemented. The hypothetical regression model has seven latent variables and is tested by the criteria through the SPSS25.0 software.There are 29 factors be...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - November 3, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Trung Nguyen Dinh Nam Pham Phuong Source Type: research

Reviewing the affordability and adequacy of affordable housing in urban India: Impact of the covid-19 pandemic
Shagun Agarwal, Tribhuvan Pratap Singh, Deepak Bajaj Housing, Care and Support, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Housing policies in India (last modified in 2017) define “affordable housing” on three main parameters – income of the target group, dwelling unit size and house price to income ratio. The Covid-19 pandemic has questioned the robustness of the defining parameters of affordable housing. This paper aims to study the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on housing affordability and adequacy for the urban poor and highlights how one pandemic has directly challenged the practicality of the affordable housi...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - October 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shagun Agarwal Tribhuvan Pratap Singh Deepak Bajaj Source Type: research

Filling in the gaps: examining the prevalence of Black homelessness in Canada
Ashley Wilkinson, Khater Muhajir, Patricia Bailey-Brown, Alana Jones, Rebecca Schiff Housing, Care and Support, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Due to ongoing inequities in the social determinants of health and systemic barriers, homelessness continues to be a significant concern that disproportionately impacts racialized communities. Despite constituting a small proportion of the population, Black individuals are over-represented among people experiencing homelessness in many Canadian cities. However, although Black homelessness in Canada is a pressing issue, it has received limited attention in the academi...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - October 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ashley Wilkinson Khater Muhajir Patricia Bailey-Brown Alana Jones Rebecca Schiff Source Type: research

Advantages and challenges of extra care housing in the UK for people living with dementia: a scoping review
Teresa June Atkinson, Rebecca Oatley, Simon Evans Housing, Care and Support, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The purpose of this paper is to report on a scoping review of the advantages and challenges of extra care housing (ECH) provision in the UK for people living with dementia. Access to suitable housing is a fundamental right for people living with dementia and can enable people to live as well as possible (Twyford and Porteus, 2021). Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of different models of housing with care has been identified as a research priority by people living with dementia (Barrett e...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - October 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Teresa June Atkinson Rebecca Oatley Simon Evans Source Type: research

Choosing invisibility? Exploring service (dis)engagement of women experiencing multiple disadvantage
This study thus aims to uncover what drives “invisibility” in services for women experiencing multiple disadvantage and the gendered constraints the women are facing when exiting and navigating multiple disadvantage.The paper draws on in-depth interviews with women who face severe and multiple disadvantage and their support staff. Data is also gathered through survey data and observations with a wide range of frontline service providers, as well as support notes and numerical progress data recorded by one of the service providers.Contradicting the common assumption that people act as rational actors in their interactio...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - October 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Carolin Hess Source Type: research

A thematic analysis of homelessness practitioners ’ perception of the impacts of welfare reforms in the UK: “Hard to maintain my own mental equilibrium”
A thematic analysis of homelessness practitioners’ perception of the impacts of welfare reforms in the UK: “Hard to maintain my own mental equilibrium” Bruno De Oliveira Housing, Care and Support, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to explore the lived experiences of key stakeholders working with homeless people during the implementation of universal credit during the austerity years.The literature on austerity reveals welfare reforms’ impact on support services staff. Service providers’ perceptions of the impact of austerity-led policies and welfare reform via nine interviews with peop...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - August 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Bruno De Oliveira Source Type: research

Health service use after moving on from permanent supportive housing
This study showed that physical and mental health service use varied slightly over time for participants, with the majority of service use being for outpatient/non-acute care. The findings also point to possible relationships between service use and mental health status. Positive and negative implications of these findings are framed within the broader context of PSH and MOI goals. (Source: Housing, Care and Support)
Source: Housing, Care and Support - August 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Amanda Aykanian Emmy Tiderington Source Type: research

Time for different thinking: housing need, policy and practice for people living with dementia and older people in Scotland
Debbie Tolson, Louise Ritchie, Michael Smith, Margaret Mullen Brown, Steven Tolson Housing, Care and Support, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This paper aims to examine housing need for older people and people with dementia, with reference to Scotland. This paper also examines policy responses and tensions arising from such need and looks critically at the evidence of care needs and what older people want in relation to later life conditions, including dementia.Taking the Being Home: Housing and Dementia in Scotland report (2017) as a baseline descriptor, the authors have collated evidence from a range of so...
Source: Housing, Care and Support - May 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Debbie Tolson Louise Ritchie Michael Smith Margaret Mullen Brown Steven Tolson Source Type: research