Survey shows homeless people don’t live as long as people with homes,food,doctors,not living outside

Life expectancy shorter for homeless, study says – [ctv.ca]

TORONTO — Canadians living in homeless shelters and rooming houses have a much shorter life expectancy than the general population – and poverty is not the only factor contributing to their premature deaths, researchers conclude.

In a 10-year study, researchers found the chance of surviving to age 75 among the homeless or inadequately housed is 32 per cent for men and 60 per cent for women, compared to 51 per cent and 72 per cent respectively for the lowest income group in Canada’s population.

To put that in perspective, the probability that a 25-year-old man living today in marginal housing would make it to age 75 is equal to the life expectancy of the average young male in 1921 – long before the advent of antibiotics and other life-saving treatments.

For homeless or poorly housed females, their chance of surviving to 75 is the same as women in the general population of Canada in 1956.

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(se: Always surprises me that people are always doing studies on the obvious things.  Did you expect that homeless people were living longer?  The streets make them invincible? Noting that people in 3rd countries are usually homeless and don’t live long, wouldn’t that give you an indication of what is happening here to homeless people?  How here’s one for you.  Factor in drugs and alcohol.  Does that have anything to do with it as well?  Why are we doing a study on homeless people anyways? We pay taxes, homeless people get shelters, but don’t want to be in them because they don’t allow drug and alcohol use.. I wonder how long people that conduct stupid survey’s live? Hrmm…)