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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.
The 22-year-old man was not allowed inside to bathe and was covered in feces, police said.
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The 1975 documentary Grey Gardens depicted the two living in squalor in the mansion; the highly regarded film [2] spawned a 2006 Broadway musical, a 2009 television movie, and other adaptations. The house dates from 1897, and was designed by Joseph Greenleaf Thorp.
In 1995, almost 70% of the population of the Nigerian capital Lagos were living in slums. [16] The City of the Dead slum is a well-known squatter community in Cairo , Egypt. [ 17 ] Between 1955 and 1975, the Cairo authorities built 39,000 public housing apartments but 2 million people moved there, mostly ending up in informal housing .
Brad Whitewood Sr. is a career criminal and the leader of his family's gang of rural backwoods criminals. Sr's criminal enterprises intersect when his son, Brad Whitewood Jr., a floundering, out-of-work teenager living in near squalor with his mother, grandmother, brother and mother's boyfriend, comes to stay with him.
Many Roma in Hungary live in squalor. In 2011, Roma asylum seekers from Hungary numbered 4,400, but most of these claims were either rejected or withdrawn. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was quoted as saying in 2012 "If they subsequently withdraw their own claim, they’re telling us that in fact they don’t need Canada’s protection, that ...