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When late-life housing loss strips away your social identity

I'm 73 and homeless for the first time after my landlord sold the building and I feel invisible to everyone walking by.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Homelessness in old age can create profound social invisibility and challenge fundamental assumptions about life trajectory.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Identity in old age and approaching death?”

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