Who are the homeless? They range from children to adults and even in some cases, families. Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is always someone less fortunate than you, some places more than others. Homeless people come from all walks of life. Anyone can become homeless; you could be born to a rich and end up under a bridge across town. Reasons that force people into homelessness are many and varied. For our research we chose to use Internet sites, references from the book entitled Homeless in America, by Michael A. Evens, and ten in-depth interviews with actual homeless people and those who work on a daily basis with them. The interviews were the strongest source of information that really helped us understand the complexity and hardships of being homeless. With an authoritative purpose we performed the interviews and were surprised to find that the answers we received were similar leading us to conclude, the homeless are victims of a mysterious but vicious cycle. .
There are many causes, consequences and complications of homelessness in America, as explained in Homeless in America, a few of the causes are very serious medical problems, found not only in the normal population. More intensely it is found in the homeless due to exposure elements, malnutrition, and inadequate places to rest and recover. Evens found that medical illnesses such as Chronic Schizophrenia which causes high, intense levels of hallucination and personality changes is indeed one cause for a mentally ill person to become incompetent to function in today's society. Another medical condition .
that contributes to homelessness is HIV and AIDS. This disease causes people to become physically incompetent to support themselves when the disease becomes severe. For .
some AIDS and HIV patients they also develop complications such as Dementia that causes predicaments that are even more socially estranging. Evens also points out that there is respiratory illnesses that begin as a simple cold can worsen to the point of pneumonia, not only from sleeping in the elements, but of course by exposure to others" infections in overcrowded shelters.