Across the country, homeless people die disproportionately young. In the Seattle area in 2015, the average age of death for homeless individuals was 48 years old. Other major American cities report similar averages: 48 in Los Angeles, 53 in Philadelphia. When recently I told another one of my patients, , a 42 year-old man who had lived most of his adult life sleeping in doorways and under bridges, that his liver was starting to show some damage from a combination of drinking and Hepatitis C, he shrugged: “Not like I got much time left anyway.”
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