Severe domestic squalor

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 (sometime...

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Otros Autores: Snowdon, John, editor (editor), Halliday, Graeme, editor, Banerjee, Sube, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2012.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Cambridge medicine (Series)
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  • Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Defining squalor and hoarding; 2. A review of the literature on squalor; 3. Hoarding: its relevance to severe domestic squalor; 4. Animal hoarding; 5. Assessment of squalor and hoarding; 6. Interventions in cases of squalor; 7. Use of the law when intervening in cases of squalor; 8. Guidelines for intervention; 9. Ethics of intervention; 10. There is much to be done; Appendix; Index.