Monday, August 07, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, United States (UPI) -- Researchers in San Francisco have found the city's homeless population is aging, and specialists say health problems between the homeless are likely to increase.
The new research at The University of California at San Francisco found the median age of San Francisco's homeless population has augmented from 37 to 46 over the past 14 years.
'We have been doing the sampling the same way since 1990, and we are seeing a cohort that has been older every time we have looked and that does not seem to be regenerating itself,' said Judith A. Hahn, assistant professor of medicine at the UCSF Epidemiology and Prevention Interventions Center at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center.
The new research at The University of California at San Francisco found the median age of San Francisco's homeless population has augmented from 37 to 46 over the past 14 years.
'We have been doing the sampling the same way since 1990, and we are seeing a cohort that has been older every time we have looked and that does not seem to be regenerating itself,' said Judith A. Hahn, assistant professor of medicine at the UCSF Epidemiology and Prevention Interventions Center at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center.
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