title: Understanding hoarding in older adults.
abstract: Compulsive hoarding is a debilitating disorder that is only recently becoming understood. Hoarding has been studied primarily in the general population, with only a few researchers focusing on hoarding in older adults, even though the prevalence and severity of the disorder appears to increase with aging. Hoarding seriously affects the quality of one's life and can also cause safety and health problems for individuals and the community. Established treatments for hoarding are relatively new and often need to be extended over a long period of time. Nurses can play an important role in helping identify the problem of hoarding in older adults, determining the types of safety and health hazards that need to be addressed, and contacting the appropriate community agencies.
authors.affiliation: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA. jsorrell@gmu.edu
authors.forename: Jeanne M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sorrell
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D015897:Comorbidity; D003657:Decision Making; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D000067836:Hoarding Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012449:Safety; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017211:Treatment Failure
chemical_list: D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors