TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snowdon,John
AU  - Halliday,Graeme
AU  - Banerjee,Sube
TI  - Severe domestic squalor
T2  - Cambridge medicine
SN  - 9780511998539 (ebook)
AV  - RC533 .S66 2012
U1  - 616.85/227 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - Should you intervene in the life of the 48-year-old woman whose dwelling is stuffed with accumulated rubbish and who will not let anyone help get rid of it - or the 78-year-old surrounded by putrescent food and filth - or the 'animal accumulator'? Cases of severe domestic squalor (sometimes called Diogenes Syndrome) are among the most complex and difficult faced by community agencies. Local councils, housing officers, health professionals, social services, animal welfare agencies, public guardians and of course relatives and neighbours often feel powerless and lack confidence about what to do when faced with such situations. The guidelines, recommendations and case examples in Severe Domestic Squalor will help concerned people to understand what can be done and how, by providing an understanding of the causative factors and who should take the lead in dealing with them
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511998539
ER  -