BookElspeth Cameron Ritchie, Maria D. Llorente, editors.
Summary: This volume highlights the socioeconomic concerns related to medical care for homeless patients and places them at the interface of common psychiatric and medical problems clinicians encounter. Written by experts in psychiatry and other medical specialties, this volume is a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the homeless crisis, its costs, and ultimately, best practices for improved outcomes. The text begins by examining the scope and epidemiology of the problem and discusses its costs. It then examines the best practices for both physical and psychiatric care before concluding with a section on working with special populations that have unique concerns across the country including LGBTQ, women, children, veterans, and aging adults. As the first medical book on homelessness, it is designed to cover a broad range of concerns in a concise, practical fashion for all clinicians working with homeless patients. Clinical Management of the Homeless Patient is written by and for psychiatrists, general internists, geriatricians, pediatricians, addiction medicine physicians, VA physicians, and all others who may encounter this crisis in their work.
Contents:
Epidemiology
Determinants of And Contributors To Homelessness
Legal/ethical issues
Excess Police/Justice Involvement
Excess Ed Resource Use
Human And Sex Trafficking And Homelessness
The Housing First Model
Pathways to Housing
The VA
Other
Efforts To Reduce Justice Reinvolvement: Jail Diversion, Justice Outreach, Justice Re-Entry
Employment, Job Training, Education
Deinstitutionalization, Homelessness Among Seriously Mentally Ill, Prevalence Of Psychiatric Illness Among Homeless
Substance Use Disorders
Trauma
Nonadherence to treatment
Suicide Prevention
Cognitive impairment/TBI
Management of the chronic mentally ill and chronically suicidal patient who is in and out of the ER and inpatient all the time
Diabetes, hypertension, HIV and other STDs, cellulitis, abscesses, arthritis
Infestations: bed bugs, lice, ant and mosquito bites and associated cellulitis
Managing these issues
A focus on toenails
Veterans
Women
Children
LGBTQ
Older Homeless (50-65, 65 to 85 Years).