Deaths in supported housing: a cohort study of mortality of previously homeless people moving into supported housing units in Ottawa, Canada

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Nicole Wisener and four colleagues counted deaths among formerly homeless people after they moved into supported housing in Ottawa. The transition off the street is known to carry elevated mortality risk, a paradox needing explanation. The retrospective cohort covered three housing units and move-ins from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty-four. It included 123 residents, average age about forty-one, sixty-two percent male. Records compared those alive and deceased by mid twenty twenty-four.

All-cause and cause-specific mortality after housing were the outcomes, with risk factors sought in demographics and health conditions. Supported housing succeeds at shelter but may inherit residents whose health was already wrecked by street years. Knowing what kills people after housing, and when, tells providers which medical supports to bundle in. The twenty twenty-six cohort gives one city's numbers for a question every housing program faces.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13536138