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As Minnie, a 63-year-old homeless woman in New York, explained it: “It’s not easy for people like me to take care of myself. I’m older and I got no place to go. I don’t have a doctor and if I get sick or hurt the best I can hope for is the line is short at the shelter’s clinic.”
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Blakeney, B.A. (1992). Health Care and Homeless People. In: Responding to the Homeless. Topics in Social Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1013-4_7
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