The research on healthcare access barriers for autistic adults documents something that people with lived experience already know: the healthcare system was not built for us.
But healthcare access does not begin at the clinic door. It begins with whether someone has a stable address. A phone number that works. The cognitive bandwidth left over after managing housing insecurity to navigate an appointment system. The sensory capacity remaining after an emergency shelter stay to sit in a waiting room.
NeuroHomes is not a healthcare organization. We do not provide clinical services and we do not position ourselves as a treatment setting. Residents are tenants with full tenancy rights.
But housing that is stable, affordable, sensory-compatible, and community-supported is upstream of almost every health outcome that matters for Neurodivergent adults. When you remove the constant cognitive load of housing precarity, something becomes available that wasn’t before.
That’s not a program theory. It’s what the evidence shows, and what the community has been saying for years.
We will be tracking and publishing health access outcomes beginning in Year 3 of operations; primary care enrollment, psychiatric care enrollment, and healthcare access rates at 6 and 12 months. We will publish those numbers honestly, including years where we fall short.
That’s our commitment.
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