Living in squalor: neuropsychological function, emotional processing and squalor perception in patients found living in squalor.

Re: Diogenes syndrome in a pair of siblings.

Dear Editor: We refer to the interesting letter from Dr Esposito and colleagues in France, describing 2 siblings who lived in severe domestic squalor (1). One was an unmarried woman, aged 61 years; the other was her brother, aged 58 years and suffering from a physical handicap. The authors state that Diogenes syndrome is rare in a pair of siblings and that the few reported cases of a pair livin...

Diogenes syndrome in patients suffering from dementia

Diogenes syndrome (DS) is a behavioral disorder of the elderly. Symptoms include living in extreme squalor, a neglected physical state, and unhygienic conditions. This is accompanied by a self-imposed isolation, the refusal of external help, and a tendency to accumulate unusual objects. To explore the phenomenon of DS in dementia we searched for the terms: "Diogenes syndrome, self-neglect, deme...

Task force seeks solutions for "senior squalor".

Accuracy of self and informant reports of symptom severity and insight in Hoarding Disorder

Background: Previous literature on Hoarding Disorder (HD) has largely recruited individuals with selfidentified hoarding difficulties or informant-ratings of individuals who are not seeking help. Little is known about the reliability of selfand informant-ratings of hoarding severity and insight, and whether individuals who self-identify with HD differ from those who do not. Method: Twenty-four ...

Twenty steps towards a "closed society" on health.

engenders in those men and women who were sustained through the last war by the ideal of a future society free of want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness. How do they respond when their first sight of a hospital is of two student nurses and a patient's relative struggling with two trolleys, a closed children's ward on one side, a condemned lift on the other, and between them and the x r...