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Hoarding
Individuals suffering from dementia may hoard objects, including perishables. You can manage the hoarding and your level of stress by developing an individual strategy for changing the hoarding behaviour.
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Strategies for Managing Hoarding
Try the following suggestions:
- Important questions to ask yourself
- Suggested interventions
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Important questions |
- What is the individual hoarding and where they are hiding it?
- Is the material perishable and dangerous?
- Is the hoarded material important to you?
- Does the hoarding occur in the same places and at certain times? Is it triggered by something?
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Suggested Interventions |
- Remove or store valuable objects and documents in a secure or locked location.
- Label clothes or other personal items.
- Minimize the number of closets and drawers available to the hoarder.
- Secure less accessible or infrequently used locations.
- Provide appropriate objects for hoarding or allow the individual to store a limited number of desired items in a decorated hoarding box.
- Always check wastebaskets before emptying them.
- Avoid arguing.
- Develop methods to distract or redirect when the individual becomes anxious about "lost " items.
- Compromise.
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