The aged recluse—An exploratory study with particular reference to community responsibility
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2014, Clinics in Geriatric MedicineCitation Excerpt :A self-neglecting elder has been also defined as a person who exhibits at least 1 of the following: (1) persistent inattention to personal hygiene and/or environment; (2) repeated refusal of some/all indicated services that can reasonably be expected to improve quality of life; (3) self-endangerment through the manifestation of unsafe behaviors (eg, persistent refusal to care for a disease).15 Personal and/or domestic squalor, used extensively in the literature to describe elder self-neglect, has also been phrased to include “the aged recluse,”16 “senile breakdown,”17 “lack of cleanliness,”18,19 “Diogenes syndrome,”20 “social breakdown in the elderly,”21,22 “squalor syndrome,”23,24 or “gross self-neglect.”25 To characterize the severity of this condition, 3 domains of self-neglect indicators have been identified: (1) personal hygiene (eg, dirty hair and clothing, poor condition of nails and skin); (2) impaired function (eg, decline in cognitive function and activities of daily living); and (3) environmental neglect (eg, evidence of subject’s inability to clean the house and yard, and manage material goods acquired over the years).26
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