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By Stacy Brownhill
Additional Reporting by Tim Covi

 

James Smith is a 53-year-old Portland veteran who used to have a job he loved. After a car accident left him with traumatic brain and neck injuries in 2005, Smith lost his job, ran out of money and wound up on the streets. When Smith tried to apply for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), he was denied three times because he was flagged as violent. He was loud, angry and high-strung—symptoms of traumatic brain injury, or TBI. For years, Smith sunk deeper into despair. This week, with the help of Portland law firm Swanson, Thomas & Coon and Central City Concern’s BEST program, Smith won his second hearing. The benefits he was awarded will give Smith a house, health care and a new life.

People suffering from TBI, the so-called invisible disease, can seem angry, forgetful, antisocial and disinterested. They may slur their speech, talk too loudly and walk crookedly. In other words, it’s easy to mistake people with TBI for being intoxicated, high, mentally ill, suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome or even averse to getting help. It’s especially easy to make those mistakes when the person is homeless and already burdened with stigmas.

In October 2008, Portland’s Housing Bureau partnered with New York City-based Common Ground Institute to survey 646 homeless people on the streets of Portland. The resulting “Vulnerability Index” found that about half were medically vulnerable. One of the medical conditions PHB was curious about was traumatic brain injury; however, because TBI can be so difficult to correctly diagnose, the field was left “To Be Determined.”

That same year, the city of Hamilton, Ontario awarded funding for a program that offered counseling and intensive case management to 176 chronically homeless men. Forty-nine of those men agreed to participate in a more in-depth pilot program that included advanced neuropsychological testing. A staggering 98 percent of men in the pilot program met the criteria for TBI.

Today, we’re as clueless about TBI on the streets of Portland as we were three years ago. But TBI is causing a stir among scientists, social workers, city officials, the military and the NFL. What they’re discovering is surprising. It can happen to anyone.

For Denver resident Giles Clasen, a freelance writer and photographer who has worked with the Denver VOICE since 2009, homelessness was only narrowly avoided after a severe brain injury. Looking at the resources it took for him to stay off the streets, his story illustrates how easy it is to become homeless after having a brain injury. One missing link in a chain of support and he would have been destitute. 

In the summer of 2008, Clasen was preparing to finish his Master’s in Divinity at Denver Seminary. He was on his way to work pedicab, a bike taxi, when he was hit by a car on August 8. In the ensuing year, he passed out randomly while walking. He suffered from intense migraines, agoraphobia and was visually impaired. He passed out while urinating, once waking up to someone in a public bathroom kicking him because he ended up urinating on the person next to him. He couldn’t focus on work for more than an hour at a time. He lost control of bowel movements at night. 

Ultimately, he lost his wife, his house, his ability to hold a steady job. Nearly everything. 

Looking back, he observed, “During that time, I don’t know if it was too much for 25-30 year olds to deal with, but most of my friends stopped hanging out. Not because they were bad people, but because it was intense. The symptoms were intense. If I left the house with you, I was reliant [on] you to provide care.”

Having lost so much, Clasen was on a crash course with homelessness. If left on his own, he wouldn’t make it
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Cities that have done studies on how many homeless suffer from TBI report numbers that are scattered, but all statistically significant: 98 percent (Hamilton, Ontario 2008-2010), 53 percent (Toronto, Ontario 2008), 67 percent (Boston, Mass. 2006-2007), 48 percent (Milwaukie, Wis. 2004), 24 percent (Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 2003) and at least 50 percent (National Healthcare for the Homeless Council). Of those, 70 percent occurred prior to becoming homeless in (Toronto), more than half occurred prior to age 20 (Boston), and the average age for the first TBI was 17 (Hamilton).

Compared to an estimated two percent of the general population that gets TBIs, “we’re seeing an enormous medical crisis,” says Dr. Theresa Petrenchik, who helped lead both the Hamilton and Fort Lauderdale studies. Petrenchik’s research leads her to conclude that homeless people with TBI use more services, are homeless more often for longer periods of time, are more frequently incarcerated and have greater co-morbid risks than homeless people without TBI.

Dr. Stephen Hwang, leader of the Toronto study, is teaming up with Dr. Barb Wismer, board member for the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council and other researchers around the country to try to get funding for a national study on TBI and homelessness. 

“We think TBI is under-identified among the homeless,” says Wismer, “and we think a lot of health care workers don’t know about it.”

 

The Balancing Act

Cheryl Coon, board member of the Brain Injury Association of Oregon and the Social Security disability attorney who represented Smith, says she has many homeless clients with TBI. She describes a common pattern with her TBI clients: first, they stop being able to focus in the workplace. Then, they lose their jobs. Their physicians may not recognize TBI. And then many become homeless.

In Clasen’s case, most of this happened, but his life diverged in two important ways. One, his brain injury was recognized immediately after the accident. Two, his mother was able to support him financially. 

He couldn’t work for the first 8 months after the accident and in the spring of 2009, after his wife asked for a divorce, he was nearly penniless. When he landed a job at RAAP (the Rape Assistance and Awareness Program) that summer, he only managed to keep it for a few months. He was going door-to-door raising money for the organization and had to meet certain quotas. He passed out on the job, got sick while working and ultimately couldn’t raise enough money. He moved into an apartment with a roommate and said if it weren’t for his mom’s financial support, he wouldn’t have made rent most of the following year. 

“I remember having to call my mom … I needed rent or I was going to be homeless, and if she didn’t pay my rent for a year I would have been homeless.”

Clasen said it was a dark time. When he found the apartment he was going to live in, he said one of the things that drew him to it was that it had a balcony on the 10th story. If he needed to end it quickly, he could. 

“It wasn’t the suicide of depression. That wasn’t the thought,” he said. “It was—I’m so defeated and I’m such a burden to the world that the world’s a better place without me. That’s how I felt.” 

He added, “I think the biggest problem with the ongoing effects of the brain injury, is it’s just always like—I have to ask people to forgive me for screwing up here or there. It’s like an asterisk on any relationship I have. I will be the best friend; I will be the best worker for you. I’ll be the best whatever our relationship is—but this is gonna interfere.”

Two years later, Clasen has recovered from most of the symptoms. He is able to lead a relatively normal life. He continues to deal with intense migraines and occasional dizziness, but is able to work and drive.

Giles’ case shows how delicate balancing life can be after a severe brain injury. Without his mother’s support, he wouldn’t have made rent for several months. Like many others, he would have lost everything and spiraled downward on the streets. 

 

What a Disability Attorney Knows

Chart notes follow Coon’s clients whenever they come in contact with the system and sometimes these files “come back to haunt folks,” says Coon. If a past doctor noted that a client was inebriated or high, even if that client was also diagnosed with TBI, that can be enough reason to deny them, she says. In fact, Coon thinks of TBI as a “Catch-22 for getting disability benefits” because the symptoms of a TBI can be associated with so many other causes.

“The Social Security Administration is not eager to take these people on,” she says, “but disability benefits have become one of the few safety nets this country has.”

Winning Smith’s hearing was a personal victory for Coon, who says that around two-thirds of cases are initially denied in Oregon. “The number one piece of advice I give for any client is ‘you’ve got to hang in there and file for appeal,’ because the process is set up to weed out those who don’t have the perseverance to pursue it,” says Coon, who estimates that well over half of cases in Oregon are won when people keep appealing.

 

What a domestic violence shelter knows

Molli Mitchell, residential services director at Bradley Angle House says she “definitely” sees women coming to the shelter with TBI. In a study of 53 battered women, Dr. Helene Jackson found that nearly all reported suffering blows to the head while being battered; 40 percent reported loss of consciousness.

Mitchell and her staff are trained to recognize symptoms of TBI, but she says referring women to clinics doesn’t often work. Battered women who are candidates for TBI may have trust issues with counselors and doctors, lack of transportation to clinics, not to mention a host of competing problems. Mitchell says the link between PTSD and TBI is  complex and often a fine line.

 

What the military knows

“TBI has become the signature injury of the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” according to the Brain Trauma Foundation. About 320,000 American troops have suffered TBIs since 2001, with 7 percent reporting both TBI and concurring PTSD or major depression, according to a 2008 report by nonprofit research group RAND Corporation. Blasts are the leading cause.

With its massive budget, the Department of Defense provides arguably the most cutting-edge research around TBI treatment. Eye-tracking goggles, neuroprotectants, biomarkers and hyperbaric oxygen chambers are just a few of the superhuman technologies being funded by the Pentagon to explore TBI, to varying success.

But despite funding such gadgets, the Department of Defense has been notoriously resistant towards paying for cognitive rehabilitation therapy for the tens of thousands of service members who have suffered TBIs. A 2010 NPR and ProPublica investigation found studies by the military’s healthcare program, Tricare, “deeply flawed” and at odds with many medical groups. They cite the cost of cognitive rehabilitation to be as much as $50,000 per soldier—a daunting number even for the Pentagon’s budget.

How many end up homeless? The Department of Veterans Affairs conservatively estimates that 107,000 veterans are homeless on any given night, and that nearly one-fifth of the homeless population is veterans. PTSD, closely linked to TBI, is cited as a leading cause.

 

What the NFL knows

Just last year, former NFL doctor Ira Casson told Congress, “there is not enough … scientific evidence at present to determine whether or not repeat head impacts in professional football result in long-term brain damage.” The resulting outrage from players, doctors and sports reporters led to heightened investigations of TBI cases in pro-football.

Mike Webster was one former NFL player held in the spotlight. Doctors estimated that the former Pittsburgh Steelers star’s brain had been through the equivalent of 25,000 car crashes in his 25 years of playing football. The depression and profound dementia that followed contributed to Webster becoming homeless and dying at age 50.

As TBI-affected ex-players come forward, the $33 billion NFL is changing its position on TBI, albeit reluctantly. In cooperation with Boston University, the NFL opened a brain bank in 2010 to conduct post-mortem analyses of players’ brains. They donated $1 million to help fund Boston University’s TBI research, started by a former wrestler.  They announced harsher fines (tens of thousands of dollars) for players who tackle above the neck. They explored advanced helmet technology.

High school sports (and the PTAs behind them) seem to be making the true groundbreaking steps on TBI. Oregon enacted “Max’s Law” in 2009—legislation that protects young athletes from damaging multiple concussions by requiring that all high school athletic coaches in the state receive concussion recognition training. It also prohibits any athlete showing concussion symptoms from playing until the next day.

 

The silent disease

All of the above candidates for TBI—homeless people, domestic violence victims, soldiers and pro-football players—are also conditioned to be silent about TBI.

Thirty of 160 NFL players surveyed by the Associated Press in 2009 said they have hidden or played down the effects of a concussion. “By the time a guy reaches pro-sports, he will not complain,” says Jane Arnett, wife of ex-player John Arnett in Lake Oswego. Together, the couple founded a nonprofit to help disabled ex-NFL players get health benefits.

A similar hush factor pervades the military. The 2010 NPR/ProPublica investigation found that, to remain with their unit, soldiers will often ignore symptoms of a blast and commanders might ignore such symptoms in order to keep soldiers on the field. Medics, forced to prioritize life-threatening injuries, may lack the time to recognize a concussion, the study adds.

Homeless people and domestic violence victims know silence better than anyone—lack of trust, resources and support prevent many from seeking help. Stigma certainly plays a role. And a 2007 study of homeless people in Denver found that homeless individuals are less than half as likely to be admitted to a hospital as non-homeless with similar conditions.

A 2008 report by The National Health Care for the Homeless Council said the following:

Many emergency departments have yet to implement screening and referral for (TBIs). As a result, many patients who are treated and released from ERs with instructions to follow up only if they experience dizziness, vomiting or difficulty waking may be experiencing cognitive changes that may never be evaluated. This is a widespread phenomenon and may explain the poor functioning of some persons who fall into homelessness without clear abuse or neglect histories.

Additionally, Theresa Petrenchik of the Toronto study believes there is willful ignorance on the part of local governments. “Some cities don’t want to survey for TBI because then you might uncover a real service need,” says Petrenchik. “When we talk about the intersection of social services and health services, no one wants to hear about the need for long-term support … but we pay for it one way or the other,” Petrenchik said.

“Being able to recognize that there is a true disability as opposed to willful noncooperation is helpful,” says Hwang. “It’s worth investigating.” •

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