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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t mean people who need adaptive technology or ada accommodations, I mean people who will end up unhoused and/or unsafe unless someone is taking care of them. [/quote]

So you are specifically asking about how many persons in the US need a personal caretaker or personal assistant, or some specific individual who informally fulfills that role -- e.g, a spouse or significant other, or offspring that lives with them, in order to stay alive? How many people who can't take care of themselves enough to survive without individual caretaking from another human being, regardless of however much technology could be thrown at them?

Is that a fair depiction of what you are looking for?[/quote]

Yeah, pretty much. [/quote]

I'm not sure that even if you asked every single person directly, that you'd get an accurate number. People are often in denial about these sorts of things, and given how you are asking the question, there's no objective measure to capture it -- not disability claims, not DME order tallies, not medical diagnoses on record.

I think the best you'll get is asking posterior about their best guesses as to the percentages in the people you know, and that will be utterly riddled with biases.[/quote]

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