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More than 8000 elderly men and women live in deteriorating hotels and apartments in the high crime Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California. Typically providing neither cooking facilities nor private bathrooms, the’ single room occupancy’ hotels in which most of the residents live constitute the bottom rung of the housing ladder in the USA. For the low income elderly in such environments, poor health, social isolation and powerlessness are often intimately connected.
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Minkler, M. (1993). To security through community. In: Tout, K. (eds) Elderly Care. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4509-9_13
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