Matt Paxton discusses elder hoarding issues
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- Matt Paxton from A&E's show "Hoarders" discussed elder hoarding issues at the Virginia Governor's Conference on Aging in May and talked to DARS about the issue and why hoarding could worsen.
What I really like & appreciate about this guy is he just doesn’t run a business to amass a fortune. He cares! He looks into why people do this and presents suggestions that would actually help.
If only all businesses were headed by compassionate, caring people!!
He is a really good man.
Matt Paxton is a very insightful guy and very compassionate.
This is such an important topic for our communities, country wide. Could you please consider releasing the entire video of the conference? It would give me and other folks who work with the elderly in their homes a better perspective on this growing issue. Then we will be in a better position to develop tools to help people escape their hoards.
Glad to see he's doing this. He is the best!
Great Job Matt Paxton! As always ❤
One of the things that puzzles me is where do they get the money to buy all these things? I am a boomer who lives on social security. I get $1200 dollars a month after working hard all of my adult life. It barely covers necessities such as rent and food. Yes I do live in an apartment that is adjusted for lower income people. The food stamp programs here would give me $17.00 dollars a month. Big deal that might buy milk, bread,peanut butter and jelly. I am physically unable to go to food pantries for additional help. My parents,siblings are all dead. I have no children.
17 dollars a month is not enough at all!!
Some shop at thrift stores. Some go dumpster diving.
S'times, it isn't hoarding, it's physical issues. I just aged physically rather suddenly. So the stuff/place gets overloaded w/boxes of unsorted stuff.
Gen X needs help too
Yes in dealing with two elderly hoarders while I’m raising children. It’s insanity. Then they keep buying my kids stuff that they don’t need or want.
My problem exactly. I have one child but he has five Boomer grandparents who insist on giving him 2 to 5 gifts every time they see him which is weekly. It doesn’t seem to matter that I don’t want them and he doesn’t want them. And they get mad at me when I give it away or get rid of it
Megan Heinzen EXACTLY!!! I’m donating a giant bag of toys and clothes today.
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I understand hoarding, one thing I don't understand how they live in a filthy environment.
Some hoarders do clean their homes around all the clutter. This is a lower level of hoarding. But cleaning around clutter takes a lot of effort and energy, and eventually some hoarders give up and just stop trying to clean anything. These hoarders either are depressed, or have some kind of illness, or the hoarding itself causes more serious depression, and isolation. It doesn't take long before this lack of cleaning leads to filth and squalor, which leads to further health problems, that can practically immobilize someone.
Also, some hoarders use lots of pesticides to try to deal with bugs that come in, and rodents. These pesticides work by paralyzing the nervous system of the pests, but they also hurt the human nervous system as well.
Mold, poisons, junk food, nutritional deficiencies, lack of sleep, inability to shower or take a bath, leads to even more mental illness. They get very frustrated and angry because they can't seem to do anything functional inside the house anymore. They get very embarrassed and defensive if anyone comes to try to help.
If people try to clean, they often try to throw away things very quickly, and the hoarder feels they are being robbed, and people are coming just to try to steal from them. Each time a cleaning attempt happens like this, they get more paranoid. They begin to not trust anyone. This can happen early on, even in childhood, as parents may try to throw their things out while they are in school, without their cooperation.
Eventually, they learn to adapt to horrendous conditions, living in survival mode most of the time, which further traumatizes them, and weakens their health, and their ability to focus on anything else. Their world shrinks down very small, and their world becomes the hoard. Their identity becomes the hoard they have saved from the world.
I've helped several hoarders over many years, and I see a lot of anxiety disorder, OCD, attention deficit disorder, some kind of mild traumatic brain injury, some kind of visual disorder of spatial vision; they cannot visualize what will fit into what kind of space. They have an inability to sort and put things into categories, even recycling and garbage. Memory problems. They cannot remember where they put things, and they cannot remember something if it is inside a cupboard, drawer, or closet, so they don't use them. If they can't find something, they buy another one and then keep that. If the washer breaks down, they buy new clothes each week.
When they were children, they struggled with learning to organize and clean anything. And adults didn't take the time to slow down and teach them very methodically until they could understand it and do it. And so many of them spend their lives totally guessing about many life skills, like cleaning, sorting, cooking, shopping, paying bills and managing money.
@@ideoformsun5806 very well said, thank you!
Your experiences w hoarding cases over the years has given you great insight.
Have you considered authoring a book on the subject?
@@ideoformsun5806sounds like a lot of undiagnosed adhd and other mental illnesses that contribute too. Older generations reluctance to these doesn’t help either 😔
Matt's really trying to act like he's not just a house cleaner. Lol. OMG