Homeless People Die 30 Years before National Average

Homeless people die thirty years before the national average, says shocking new research from Sheffield University commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people. "Homelessness: A silent killer" finds that homeless men are dying at 47 years old and women at 43 years old, in stark contrast to the average age of death for the general population which is 77 years. Other key findings from the research into the mortality of homeless people are:
*Drug and alcohol abuse account for just over a third of all deaths
*Homeless people are over nine times more likely to commit suicide than the general population
*Deaths as a result of traffic accidents are three times as likely, infections twice as likely and falls over three times as likely
Download a copy of the report from the Crisis website.