L.A. County’s homeless population is growing — but not as fast as they’re dying

Dr. Coley King, who treated Raymond Thill before his death, also cares for his wife, Sherry.

The surge also reflects a rise in the number of people who are chronically homeless and who don’t typically use shelters, meaning more people are living longer on the streets with serious physical and behavioral health issues, they say.and who have multiple health problems,” said Michael Cousineau, a professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. “There are more complications, and one of those complications is a high mortality rate. It’s just a tragedy.

Based on those criteria, the coroner reported there were 3,612 homeless people who died in L.A. County between 2014 and 2018. Drugs and alcohol played a direct role in at least a quarter of the deaths of homeless people over the past five years, according to the analysis from the county coroner’s office. The substances also likely contributed to many more deaths, including those whose deaths were related to liver and heart problems.

Raymond Thill was just 46 when he died last year of what his wife, Sherry Thill, called complications related to alcoholism. The couple had been homeless for many years before moving into a small apartment in South Los Angeles shortly before his death.Thill said her husband often drank vodka throughout the day, and had been in and out of the hospital because of liver and other health problems. He tried rehab and she tried taking the alcohol away from him. Nothing worked.

Based on the data analysis, homeless people in Los Angeles County died from many of the same ailments as the general population — heart disease, cancer, lung disease, diabetes and infections. But they did so at a much younger age, said Dr. Paul Gregerson, who treats homeless residents as chief medical officer for JWCH Institute clinics in the Los Angeles area.

LA is the city of inequalities

Let’s bring MORE uneducated poor people who don’t speak English into our country. Sound like a plan?

We have a lot of homeless people in CA that we need to take care of...so why are California democrats want open borders? There's A LOT of people already in the state(which are also citizens) that need help, we cannot afford to absorb ILLEGAL immigrants yet. Let's fix this first!

So no enforcement of vagrancy laws, lack of housing for homeless, rampant camps, hepatitis, small pox, measles, the fn plague, staph, herion needles everywhere whst in the hell do think MayorOfLA is doing? Talking just talking

Everything is going according to plan...

So the problem is taking care of itself?

Millions of homeless, 200 mln wo education and access to proper health care, total disregard for human rights and loud propaganda of directly counter reality. America is sick, system is rotten, we need to rebuild USA.

Homeless deaths are what the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia rely on.....slows homeless growth slightly!!!!

The Democrats are spending millions on illegal aliens though. Vote them out!

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Thank you MayorOfLA

Get rid of free stuff and the transients, winos, bums, and derelicts will go elsewhere.

They must be disneyland employees

Heroins a hell of a drug

The problem with this is that people die every day. This is just talking about the homeless. Put it in as a national average for every living human being & compare it to the deaths of every single human being in the United States. Don’t single them out because they’re “homeless“

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