Intersection: Dementia, Poverty, Homelessness
“In 15 years of working with seniors with memory loss and other mental disabilities, Gaines has witnessed how poverty and inaccessibility to quality care, wreak havoc and influence poor health conditions. The physical changes in the brain are sometimes so severe, that seniors struggle to live normal lives. ‘There’s a huge intersection between the two; most people end up in a crisis, and the crisis is what leads to homelessness and things like that, because what happens is the family doesn’t know what to do,’ said Gaines.”