Amid growing 'scandal' of elder homelessness, health care groups aim to help
08/22/25 at 03:00 AM
Amid growing 'scandal' of elder homelessness, health care groups aim to help
NPR, Bristol, RI; by Felice J. Freyer; 8/16/25
At age 82, Roberta Rabinovitz realized she had no place to go. A widow, she had lost both her daughters to cancer, after living with one and then the other, nursing them until their deaths. Then she moved in with her brother in Florida, until he also died. ... Rabinovitz joined the growing population of older Americans unsure of where to lay their heads at night. But Rabinovitz was fortunate. She found a place to live, through what might seem like an unlikely source — a health care nonprofit, the PACE Organization of Rhode Island.