(TheConservativeTimes.org) – Thousands of senior citizens in Los Angeles have died due to homeless related issues in the past decade. Those over sixty years old make up one-fourth of all the deaths of unhoused people, according to public records.
Many believe that homeless people in Los Angeles are typically younger adults, however, more than three thousand of those eleven thousand people who died unhoused in Los Angeles were sixty and older.
The Los Angeles county medical examiner recorded almost five hundred deaths of older unhoused people. That is almost four times the number of casualties from the decade prior.
Records have shown that many of the deaths were ruled as “natural,” such as medical conditions or other natural causes while under one hundred of them made up suicides and homicides. It also showed that more than two hundred people ages seventy-five years and older have died over the last ten years.
The homeless crisis has been a concern for the LA area as the city has faced an increased number of homeless people. There is insufficient housing support to eliminate the crisis and meet the needs of the population.
More than seventy five thousand people are currently unhoused in Los Angeles county and more than five thousand of those people are elderly. The University of California, San Francisco did a study last year that found ninety percent of the homeless population lived in California prior to becoming homeless. The increase in housing prices makes it hard to keep a home and even harder to obtain a home once homeless.
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