Severe Domestic Squalor

by Sube Banerjee, John Snowdon, Graeme Halliday

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107012724
• ISBN13: 9781107012721
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"