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Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, is a disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal, apathy, compulsive hoarding of garbage or animals, and a lack of shame. Affected people may also display symptoms of catatonia. [1] [2]
Squalor refers to filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty. Squalor may also refer to: Squalor, a limited series by Stefan Petrucha and Tom Sutton; Student squalor, various situations of student housing; Senile Squalor Syndrome (Diogenes syndrome) characterised by extreme self neglect and hoarding.
Self-neglect is a behavioral condition in which an individual neglects to attend to their basic needs, such as personal hygiene, appropriate clothing, feeding, or tending appropriately to any medical conditions they have. [1] More generally, any lack of self-care in terms of personal health, hygiene and living conditions can be referred to as ...
In a statement released January, SEIU Local 888 alleges that “deplorable” living and working conditions exist in some of the WHA-run complexes. Worcester Housing Authority blasts union's ...
Inspectors say some of the conditions people are living in are "horrendous". The levels of damp and mould found in a bedroom are described as "the worst" inspectors have seen [Emma Baugh/BBC News] ...
Lindhagen had first encountered allotment gardens in Copenhagen in 1903 and was immediately taken by the health-related benefits that the small garden compounds offered urban working-class families who at the time often suffered from squalor living conditions, a lack of fresh air and poor nutrition.
A woman who abandoned a dog and 35 puppies in a dilapidated caravan has avoided jail. Labradors, dachshunds and French bulldogs were found living in a "state of squalor" on an industrial estate in ...
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. The photographs served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes. They ...