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Mon, Mar 1, 10 at 23:28
| I stumbled across this, and was fascinated. Not hoarding, but 'senior squalor'. Who knew it had a name? My MIL lived like this for years before she died, it was horrid. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Diogenes Syndrome
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| Thanks for sharing, but I guess all of us seniors have a touch of this. lots of memories, but our kids really don't want the stuff we wanted from our parents and grandparents. Times have changed. |
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| No, this isn't anything like what you describe. "Squalor" is the word that describes it. If you are living like this, or suggest that "all of us" have a touch of it, you don't understand the syndrome. My MIL went out to the hospital on a stretcher, and the house had to literally be shoveled out by professions wearing masks, and she could never return: the house was damaged down to the studs. The Wedgwood china and everything else was trashed. There is indication of neurological damage. Here's more to read. |
Here is a link that might be useful: self-neglect
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