Senior Squalor Syndrome.
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2 min readMar 20, 2017
An article I read coined the name “Senior Squalor Syndrome”: extreme hoarding in older adults.
I disagree. Extreme hoarding takes decades to accumulate.
The problem is that older adults are more impacted by hoarding:
- greater risk for falls
- poor medication compliance
- social isolation, and more.
I don’t try to “cure” an 85 year-old hoarder. I try to keep them safe.
