title: [Hoarding Behavıour in Three Different Types of Dementia Cases].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Hoarding behaviour, which is generally defined as collecting and keeping unnecessary, cheap objects or things that can not be used, is more common in elderly than young people. The prevelance of hoarding behaviour in dementia was reported as 22%. In this paper, three different types of dementia cases are presented in order to emphasize the clinical awareness for hoarding disorder, which is common in the elderly, especially those with dementia.
  
  
  METHODS
  The first case is a patient with a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia who was collecting old things before the appearance of bahavioural changes like verbal and physical agitation. The second one is a patient who was admitted with complaints of forgetting, diagnosed as having Alzheimer's Disease and presented with paper hoarding behavior in his clinical follow-up. The last patient was presented with visual hallucinations, forgetting, collecting old things and depressive symptoms. He received a diagnosis of Lewy body dementia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is prominent that all three different dementia cases hoarding behavior at early stages of dementia. It should be kept in mind that hoarding behavior which begins at late life might be a sign of dementia or it might appear in the dementia process.
authors.forename: Bilgen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Biçer Kanat
authors.forename: Umut
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Altunöz
authors.forename: Sevinç
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kırıcı
authors.forename: Gülbahar
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Baştuğ
authors.forename: Erguvan Tuğba
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Özel Kızıl
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003704:Dementia; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D000067836:Hoarding Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics