Taysha Demetro Meghan Shenot. * Reasons why people are homeless * How to assess (questions to ask) *...
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Taysha Demetro Meghan Shenot. * Reasons why people are homeless * How to assess (questions to ask) * Epidemiology (popular diseases/problems) * Healthy
* Reasons why people are homeless * How to assess (questions to
ask) * Epidemiology (popular diseases/problems) * Healthy People
2020 * Case Study/Critical Questions * Health Promotion and
Prevention * Services within the community
Slide 3
* 1. The class will be able to demonstrate why Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs is so important when assessing the homeless
population by the end of our presentation. * 2. The class will
learn what necessary questions to ask the homeless in order to
gather data to perform a complete head to toe assessment by the end
of our presentation. * 3. The class will be able to identify places
and resources that the homeless will be able to use by the end of
our presentation.
Slide 4
* 1. When you see a homeless person, what do you think or do? *
2. If you were working in the ER and a homeless person came in, how
would your assessment differ from that of another person? * 3. Now
that you've assessed this homeless person, what would you do
next?
* Mental illness * Unemployment and underemployment * Domestic
violence/abuse * Abandonment * Natural disasters and fires *
Substance abuse and addiction * Trimorbidity- substance abuse
addiction, mental illness, and another chronic condition ex- HTN *
(Harkness & DeMarco, 2012)
Slide 7
* Children born to parents who are homeless or who have become
homeless because * eviction * overcrowding * conflict * natural
disasters * (Harkness & DeMarco, 2012) * The homeless include
single men, families with children led by single heads of
households (women) single women(bag ladies), and children(
