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Michelle Blumberg

Michelle Blumberg

PhD Student in Clinical Neuropsychology at York University researching cognitive outcomes in homeless and precariously housed adults.

May 27, 2026

3:55
And I, I really wanted to better understand how those, you know, each uniquely shape everyday functioning as well as quality of life in this population.
4:07
Yeah.
4:07
And so to summarize the findings of this study, very broadly what we found is that objective and subjective cognition are not correlated with one another in adults experiencing homelessness or precarious housing, and this is in line with what we see in other clinical populations where we see this discordance between objective neurocognitive performance and how individuals feel about their cognitive functioning.
4:38
We also examined how these unique dimensions of cognition differentially relate to perceived everyday functioning, so how they feel about their community functioning, for instance, as well as perceived quality of life.
4:53
And what we found is that subjective cognition was strongly associated with both quality of life and perceived community functioning in this group, as opposed to performance on our computerized neurocognitive battery.
5:09
So those were generally the findings.
5:11
And of note, I think it's important to note that we didn't assess objective functioning and everyday functioning.

10 MINS LATER

15:01
So k- keeping everything that Dr. Geekie has just mentioned in terms of explaining why we don't see that relationship necessarily or it being in one direction rather than the other, how much of it do you think we can attribute it to the status of someone being homeless as opposed to lacking insight or self-awareness?

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