“I Haven’t Grieved Yet…”: The Experiences of Older Homeless Persons Living in Long-Term Transitional Housing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Older homeless persons can experience relief when accessing housing. However, becoming housed can also elicit the (re)emergence of loss and grief. Building on the notion of disenfranchised grief, this study sought to better understand how grief works together with relief to shape older persons' experiences living in long-term transitional housing. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: 11 older persons with experience of homelessness participated in up to 3 photovoice interviews in Montreal, Canada. Informed by the principles of interpretative phenomenology, their accounts and photos were analyzed to capture the nuances and depth of their lived experiences. RESULTS: Analysis showed that relocation to long-term transitional housing allows for the reemergence of grief associated with past losses, while also provoking new forms of grief related to housing conditions and anticipated losses. Analysis further revealed that a failure to recognize these losses, alongside a lack of resources to support the grieving process, can result in an accumulation of losses that widens the gap between older homeless persons' experiences and the world around them. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: 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.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".