One clear day in the small town of Monmouth, 69-year-old Susan Gallagher, a caregiver recently evicted from her home, drove a faded-brown 1998 Chevy pickup truck to a local church. Her pillow lay on the passenger seat, where she sleeps among her belongings, near a bottle of hand sanitizer, a box of tissues and a tiny parrot hanging from the rearview mirror.
She came here for a shower. Afterward, she sat at a table, her inhaler resting near the cane she uses due to falls that broke her ankles and her right foot. She has big goals: “I want to live to at least 103.” But lately, something bigger is on her mind.
“I wanna go home,” she said. “I just wanna go home.”…