Homelessness Is a ‘Cognitive Impairment Crisis’ in Canada

Reframing homelessness as a “cognitive impairment crisis” is key to developing policies that more effectively address Canada’s homelessness crisis, a new commentary asserts.“This issue has been something I’ve noticed for a few years, but it took a while for me to examine it in depth and understand the degree of compounding issues that affect this population,” commentary author Sumantra Monty Ghosh, MD, MPH, an addiction medicine specialist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, told Medscape News Canada.