Ageism??

A Case of Agism?
Fremont woman finds herself living on the street
By Rebecca Parr, rparr@bayareanewsgroup.com Stephanie Welch weathered the booms and busts of Silicon Valley since its infancy in the 1960s, always able to find a job but that changed during the recession and a health setback where she now finds herself living on the street and bewildered. 

2016-3-5 11:00:00 A.M.

Reprinted from The San Jose Mercury News:

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_29598188/fremont-woman-finds-herself-living-on-the-street

After weathering booms and busts of Silicon Valley, Fremont woman finds herself living on the street By Rebecca Parr, rparr@bayareanewsgroup.com Doug Stewart, with the Central County Homeless Outreach program, looks for homeless under an overpass late in the evening in Martinez, Calif., on Thursday, March 4, 2016. Stewart started the Central County Homeless Outreach program 13 years ago to help them in whatever ways he could. And now, after ... Central County Homeless Outreach founder to end operations

FREMONT -- Stephanie Welch weathered the booms and busts of Silicon Valley since its infancy in the 1960s, always able to find a job.

But that changed during the recession when Welch, then in her late 50s, could not even get an interview. Since 2010, her life has spiraled downward, and Welch now finds herself living on the street and bewildered.

"The ageism -- I never saw it coming," she said.

Welch is homeless, pushing a shopping cart with some of her things around a retail parking lot in the Warm Springs neighborhood.

"I was raised here; I went to Mission San Jose. Warm Springs is a comfort for me. I don't know where else I would go," she said.....