Risk Of Homelessness

For example, Odell and Commander identify some risk factors for homelessness among people with psychotic disorders as they recruited them from mental services. According to their research about psychotic disorders, the data from interviews and medical records showed High rates of severe mental illness amongst single homeless populations have been consistently reported in the literature. The reasons for this disturbing finding arise, at least in part, from structural features in our society are high unemployment, restricted social security benefits, family disruption and reduced availability of affordable housing. (Odell and Commander 396)
In any society, people in the lower class are affected by these conditions of lacking human basic needs like shelter. The government has to try to help and support these people, who live under this problem financially, physically, psychologically, and socially. The Old woman may be one of the children lost contact with childhood care because of severe mental illness that affected her parent. Obviously, she remained unemployed and became the Old Woman of the Roads, for she lacked a home to live in the society and the government was not responsible for assisting her.
However, violence might be the cause of the Old woman and Miss Rosie to be among the homeless. In today’s world, many individuals are concerned about themselves and this leads a person to live the way he or she wants, for some are involved in addiction like alcohol and drugs, others are interested in benefiting from the other person. Many families, friends, communities, and partners are lacking true love, honest, and peace. Instead, they experience hatred, disharmony, and dishonest that made them be depressed and lose the focus of their goals in