Continued Homelessness and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults.

Importance: Depression is common in adults experiencing homelessness. It is unclear whether continued homelessness is associated with more depressive symptoms.

Objective: To examine the association between residential status and depressive symptoms in adults aged 50 years or older experiencing homelessness at study entry.

"We Remember the Pain": A qualitative study of intergenerational trauma among older adults experiencing homelessness in the HOPE HOME study.

Rates of homelessness among adults aged 50 and over are rising. Common strategies for exiting homelessness rely on social and family support. However, intergenerational trauma may disrupt these social support networks and contribute to homelessness.

Homelessness And Health: Factors, Evidence, Innovations That Work, And Policy Recommendations.

On a single night in 2023, more than 653,000 people experienced homelessness in the United States. In this overview, we highlight structural and individual risk factors that can lead to homelessness, explore evidence on the relationship between homelessness and health, discuss programmatic and policy innovations, and provide policy recommendations. Health system efforts to address homelessness and improve the health of homeless populations have included interventions such as screening for social needs and medical respite programs.

Sleep Quality among Homeless-Experienced Older Adults: Exploratory Results from the HOPE HOME Study.

Background: Sleep is essential to health and affected by environmental and clinical factors. There is limited longitudinal research examining sleep quality in homeless older adults.

Objective: To examine the factors associated with poor sleep quality in a cohort of older adults in Oakland, California recruited while homeless using venue-based sampling and followed regardless of housing status.

"I Needed for You to See What I'm Talking About": Experiences With Telehealth Among Homeless-Experienced Older Adults.

Little is known about how older adults with a current or recent experience of homelessness navigated the switch to telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined the perceptions and use of telehealth in a purposive sample of 37 homeless-experienced older adults in mid-late 2020 through semi-structured qualitative interviews. We purposively recruited participants from a larger longitudinal study on homeless-experienced older adults in Oakland, CA.

Caregiving Needs Are Unmet for Many Older Homeless Adults: Findings from the HOPE HOME Study.

Background: The homeless population is aging, with early onset of cognitive and functional impairments. It is unclear whether older homeless adults receive caregiving assistance that could prevent long-term disability.

Objective: We describe characteristics of older homeless-experienced adults with caregiving need and determine factors associated with having unmet need.

COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Acceptability Among Homeless-Experienced Adults: Qualitative Data from Two Samples.

Background: Homeless-experienced populations are at increased risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 due to their living environments and face an increased risk of severe COVID-19 disease due to underlying health conditions. Little is known about COVID-19 testing and vaccination acceptability among homeless-experienced populations.

Objective: To understand the facilitators and barriers to COVID-19 testing and vaccine acceptability among homeless-experienced adults.

Cerebral blood flow in 5- to 8-month-olds: Regional tissue maturity is associated with infant affect.

Infancy is marked by rapid neural and emotional development. The relation between brain function and emotion in infancy, however, is not well understood. Methods for measuring brain function predominantly rely on the BOLD signal; however, interpretation of the BOLD signal in infancy is challenging because the neuronal-hemodynamic relation is immature.