Amid growing 'scandal' of elder homelessness, health care groups aim to help

NPR
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Roberta Rabinovitz, right, had cancer and had been living with her grandson, sleeping on his couch. With her is Rachel Nassif, day center director at the PACE Organization of Rhode Island in East Providence.

The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing homes as homelessness grows.

(Image credit: Felice J. Freyer for KFF Health News)

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