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Record W4415525615 · doi:10.1371/journal.pmen.0000445

Older adults experiences of transitioning to housing following homelessness from a perspective of ontological security: A secondary analysis

2025· article· en· W4415525615 on OpenAlexaff
Rebecca Goldszmidt, Shu‐Ping Chen, Rebecca Gewurtz, Carri Hand, Carrie Anne Marshall

Bibliographic record

VenuePLOS mental health. · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHomelessness and Social Issues
Canadian institutionsUniversity of AlbertaMcMaster UniversityLondon Health Sciences CentreWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOntological securityPerspective (graphical)Transition (genetics)Aging in placeQualitative researchLife course approachLived experience

Abstract

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Older adults are increasingly becoming unhoused. Once homeless, older adults are forced to navigate the transition to housing, an area which requires further research. We conducted a secondary analysis of qualitative research data using the theory of ontological security to explore the question: How do older adults experience trauma across the transition to housing following homelessness? During the analysis, we created a central essence 'When your entire world is upended you have to learn to live in a new reality', with three underlying themes: 1) My life got "pulled out from under me" and I am struggling to regain even footing; 2) I see reality clearly, "the system is broken"; and 3) The importance of social connection in rebuilding ontological security. Findings indicate the transition to housing presents an opportunity for older adults to rebuild ontological security, however only when they have access to housing that is good quality, deeply affordable, and accessible.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.394
Teacher spread0.371 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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