LAI412 - What You Need to Know When Someone Hoards

Presented on March 28, 2024

According to the American Psychiatric Association, 2-6% of the U.S. population exhibit a hoarding disorder. This tendency doesn’t suddenly disappear when a person enters a senior living community. So, if you have worked in eldercare for any length of time, you have likely encountered hoarding. But what is hoarding and how does it differ from being a “pack rat?”

This webinar will explore hoarding in senior living by first defining hoarding and identifying the types of hoarding behaviors. The webinar explores the scope of the issue in various levels of senior living including independent, assisted living, SNF, and senior housing. In addition, the reasons why individuals may hoard, health conditions that might lead to hoarding behavior, and the effects (physical, social, and emotional) of hoarding behavior will be examined.

Approaches and signs for recognizing hoarding behavior will be addressed in this webinar. In addition, strategies to address hoarding in senior living will be offered including how to balance interventions with resident rights, standardized assessment to determine the severity of hoarding, the dos and don’ts of communicating with a hoarder, and practices for supporting the hoarder toward a place of health and well-being. Additional evidence-based tips for supporting individuals who don’t think they hoard and for living with someone who is hoarding will be offered.

When dealing with a hoarder, you need to make the most of your encounters. By learning a new way to break down the barriers of hoarders, you can make a difference in their quality of life and teach them, their families, and staff how to help them understand it and how to help them.

Objectives

• Describe the scope of hoarding in senior living and how it differs from collecting.
• Identify signs of hoarding behaviors and their effects on health and well-being.
• List strategies providers may use to address and reduce hoarding behavior in residents and tenants.
• Identify verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to address hoarding and support the emotional well-being of hoarders.

Faculty

Kathleen Weissberg, OTD, OTR/L, Education Director. Select Rehabilitation

Who Should Attend
Social Workers, Administrators, Nurse Leaders, Department Heads, and other staff who may encounter hoarding situations. Appropriate for all provider types including nursing home, assisted living, and independent living (some content may be appropriate for home and community-based services and adult day services as well).

Continuing Education Credit

Iowa Board of Nursing Provider #67 – LeadingAge Iowa has been approved as a provider of continuing education for nurses by the Iowa Board of Nursing, provider No. 67. 1.0 contact hour will be available for participants who attend this event in its entirety. Partial credit for this event will not be granted. To receive contact hours or a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire event. Evaluations for this event can be submitted to the Iowa Board of Nursing.

Nursing Home Administrators – 1.0 contact hour is intended to meet the criteria established by the Iowa Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators for participants who attend this event in its entirety. Partial credit for this event will not be granted. To receive contact hours or a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire event.

LAI Assisted Living Management Recertification – 1.0 contact hour will be available for participants who attend this event in its entirety. Partial credit for this event will not be granted. To receive contact hours or a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire event.

Activity Professionals – This event has been approved by the Iowa Department of Inspections & Appeals for 1.0 contact hour for Certified Activity Professionals who attend this event in its entirety. Partial credit for this session will not be granted. To receive contact hours or a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire event.

Social Services – 1.0 contact hour is intended to meet the criteria established by the Iowa Board of Examiners for Social Workers for participants who attend this event in its entirety. Partial credit for this session will not be granted. To receive contact hours or a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire event.

Registration Information
This program recording is approximately 60 minutes in length. Registration fees include access to the recording and handouts for this program, as well as a CEU/attendance certificate for one user. Once you purchase the program, unlimited viewing of the recording content will be available using the registrant login information for 30 days.