Why Does a Person with Dementia HOARD Things? || The 'Why?' Series

Why Does a Person with Dementia HOARD Things? || The "Why?" Series

This can be a frustrating behavior, BUT, it is relatively harmless! And so meaningful to the person with dementia. IF you can relax and allow for it, it will lessen arguments and friction.

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~About the B O O K~

“Dementia with Grace: A New, Positive Way of Dealing with Behaviors in People with Dementia” addresses behaviors whether caused by Alzheimer's Disease, Lewy-Body dementia, vascular dementia, frontal-temporal dementia or any other type.

In this book, you will find information, tips, and techniques to help take care of a person living with dementia, with grace.

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Vicky Noland Fitch
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~About Me~

My name is Vicky Noland Fitch and I hold a Bachelor of Social Work degree and I am also a Certified Dementia Practitioner. I have been a dementia caregiver for over 25 years, and I love to help people problem solve when difficult behaviors arise. I live and work out of an 1892 farmhouse deep in the heart of Dixie with my husband, Phil and my ragdoll cat, Contessa. I have one daughter, Emily, and a son in law, Eric.

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Disclaimers and Disclosures:

The information presented herein has been developed by Vicky Noland Fitch, BSW, CDP over a 25+ year career of working primarily as a dementia caregiver, educator, trainer and now as a consultant.

The information provided in this video should not be construed or relied upon as medical advice for any specific fact or circumstance. Its content was prepared by Dementia With Grace for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should not act or rely on any of the information contained herein without seeking professional medical advice.

[moraymaperez-mirabal]

This is officially the FIRST TIME I have ever commented on a YouTube video, but I had to give you love for not only your helpful message, but your beautiful expression of it. You ARE grace, Mam. I want to make sure you know it. See, it's a real pickle I'm in right now... knowing my father is most definitely hoarding to the point of us daughters making a definitive decision of direct action, but also discovering, while comparing notes, that his 'forgetfulness' has suddenly turned into hiding things and then a new agresiveness as response to it all. Anyway... thank you again for your grace and I wish you a beautiful, healthy Christmas!!

[alexmajano]

My grandparents are in their early 70s and after my grandma´s older brother passed away (over a year ago) both of them have shown signs of change. My grandma, of course, not the same after her loss, I get her. My grandfather, in the other hand, has started to show signs of...well, peculiar decisions, hoarding every sort of figurine he finds, placing them in the living room or dining room, hoarding and plastic bottles and filling them with water (he says it's for washing the driveway but half of those bottles are now GREEN)...not to mention sometimes, when it has been raining, he waits for the rain to end and walk the dog (even if that it's at 10pm). I'm starting to worry because he drives, and they spend half the day alone at their business (one of my aunts helps them for half the day).

Sorry for the long com. Hope you can read me and maybe tell me if it sounds like dementia to you.

Thanks!

[DementiaWithGrace]

Does this sound like what you are dealing with?? It is VERY common across the dementias. Leave me a comment if this was helpful, and also let me know what YOU need to know MORE about! ~Love and joy! Vicky

[alexmorgan]

My mother is or was a prolific hoarder. She's now in a care home. Lewy Body Dementia. It is my belief that hoarding is brought about from a period in life when some one experienced profound deprivation or curtailment of some form either physically or more importantly emotionally resulting in unresolved issues of trauma. This trauma then manifests itself in a need for familiarity and security by collecting physical things that have a utility value that produce feelings of familiarity, security and stability in the mind of the hoarder. Upset these feelings of security and stability then the hoarder can become extremely irrational and emotionally unstable possibly confrontational and or combative.

[sunsetfree]

Mail! Daily. For decades! Piled from floor to ceiling. It covered most every inch of my Dad’s basement and his office. There was barely room to open the door and step in. It covered a few feet high on his living room floor, his couch, his dining room table, and even his stove…where he turned on his burners for heat. But it was all neatly organized, precisely by date and size. He lived in the most organized chaos you could ever imagine!

[hunibunibrown]

My Mum hides tissues down her chair then lies about it but won't tell me why she feels she needs to do that. When she gets out her chair I find at least 12 tissues in her chair despite a tissue box next to her. She's always wiping her nose despite not being anything wrong with her nose.

[traceylynn]

My mother ...
I go through and gather everything and toss it in the trash

[MaryKnight-ykmh]

My honey ask me to save paper coffee cups. Yogurt containers. Saves hand wipes to dry and use as tissue. I go thru rooms and throw away and he never asks for it. ❤❤

[bambraparker]

yes but what can you do about it my mother-in-law moved in with us 3 years ago. We had downsize from our family home. When she came to live with us we had to move into a bigger house. She is a hoarder and doesn't want to let anything go. I keep telling her you are not taking anything with you. How do I get her to let go?