Hoarding & Older Adults
Hoarding Articles
Dangers of Hoarding Behavior Become More Severe With Age
Elderly hoarding is something that most family caregivers do not anticipate having to deal with. This behavior often increases with age and creates a hazardous living environment for older adults. Take these 5 steps to help a senior who hoards.
1 CommentAnxiety, Hoarding and OCD in the Elderly
Anxiety can be a normal reaction to stress, but when a senior’s fears, worries and coping mechanisms negatively affect their daily activities, relationships and quality of life, it crosses over into a serious mental health condition.
7 CommentsHow Do I Get Dad Out of His Cluttered, Unsafe Home?
The task of getting an elderly relative out of a cluttered, filthy, unsafe home is never easy. Here are some tips for caregivers and family to make the process more successful.
34 CommentsHoarding: A Challenging and Potentially Dangerous Dementia-Related Behavior
Hoarding is an extreme “collecting” behavior seen in some people who have Alzheimer's disease and obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Fortunately, there are some strategies that caregivers and family members can use to help manage these behaviors.
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Hoarding Questions
How to get in assisted living if 89 yr old mind good except lives in a terrible nasty house? She hoards things, hardly room to walk.
4 AnswersAlvaDeer Answered Mar 17, 2024Need help! Inherited belongings of 1 parent + 2 stepparents. Home, garage and storage units are full. Caretaking 1 parent now, no time!
10 AnswersAlvaDeer Replied Mar 17, 2024MIL (83) high functioning with dementia. She is angry and hoarding (towels and toilet paper rolls).
8 AnswersBurntCaregiver Replied Mar 16, 2024Hoarding: How much can she fit in there?
33 AnswersHouseplant102 Answered Mar 14, 2024
Hoarding Discussions
Mil is manipulative, lazy and a (for lack of better word) a pig.
21 CommentsGettingreal Commented Dec 14, 2023When is it time to pursue legal action to declare someone incompetent?
23 CommentsBeatty Commented Oct 29, 2023Update to my mom's bedsores.
3 CommentsMidkid58 Commented Jun 2022Thank goodness for POA
2 CommentsMJ1929 Commented Sep 2021
Hoarding Related Topics
- Care Decisions
- Alzheimer's & Dementia
- Burnout
- Dementia Behaviors
- Long-distance Caregiving
- Cognitive Decline
- New to Caregiving
- Aging in Place
- Signs of Dementia
- Violent Behavior
- Cancer
- Area Agency on Aging
- Memory Loss
- Mild Dementia
- Sundowner's Syndrome
- Caregiving
- Home Modification
- Dementia Wandering
- Early Onset Alzheimer's
- Sandwich Generation