Physical & Medical
Some individuals become self-neglecting when their heart can't pump blood effectively because of this medical condition.
What is Congestive Heart Failure?
This mental illness, characterized by persistent sad mood, feelings of worthlessness, and the inability to feel pleasure, can be associated with self-neglect.
What is Depression?
Besides neglecting themselves, self-neglecting individuals may also fail to clean or repair this.
What is their Home?
Self-neglect issues often come to the attention of APS when clients fail to do this financial task.
What is pay their bills?
Self-neglecting clients often lack a person to take this disability related role in their life.
What is a caregiver?
Some self-neglectors have a condition in which their glucose level gets too high.
What is Diabetes?
Individuals with mental illness may also have this co-occurring problem.
What is substance misuse?
Often the easiest way to determine whether self-neglect is caused by alcoholism is to check this aspect of the client's environment.
When a client is suddenly sending large amounts of money to a new "girlfriend," he may be a victim of...
What is a "sweetheart" scam?
Clients may manage well, even with severe impairments, if their social network is....
Self-neglect is a medical emergency when fluid intake gets too low, causing this medical condition.
What is dehydration?
This is a descriptive term for a collection of symptoms that can be caused by a number of disorders that affect the brain. It includes a memory deficit plus a deficit in at least one other cognitive domain.
What is Dementia?
When dealing with extreme animal hoarding cases, APS should partner with this agency.
What is animal control? (or the Humane Society)
When a self-neglecting client gives his money away to a person he trusts, against his own best interest, you may be dealing with this type of financial abuse.
What is undue influence?
Neighbors generally characterize self-neglecting clients as a problem because they do this.
What is
1. Bring down property values
2. Pose a nuisance
3. Reduce quality of life
4. Endanger their safety
A common cause of confusion found in self-neglecting clients is this infection.
What is a Urinary Tract Infection?
In legal terms, individuals who are unable to make informed decisions about their medical care are said to have this.
What is Diminished Capacity?
The biggest dilemma when dealing with self-neglecting clients is balancing safety against this.
What is Self Determination?
When the client is unable to manage his own finances, you may want him to consider this type of service.
What is a daily money management or a Representative Payee Program?
Cognitively intact self-neglecting clients may refuse help for this reason.
What is:
1. Shame that children aren't caring for them
2. A philosophical view that they should handle their own affairs
3. Fear of institutionalization, deportation or other government response
Deficiency in this vitamin has been linked by research to self-neglect.
What is Vitamin D?
Clients who agonize about making the right decisions due to Obsessive Compulsive Disorders may demonstrate this type of self-neglecting behavior.
What is Hoarding?
APS should intervene against a client's wishes (when the client appears to be otherwise competent) when the client's environment is this.
What is a source of immediate danger to the client's life?
The most extreme intervention for clients who are financially self-neglecting is to refer them for this service.
What is a guardianship or conservatorship?
Self-neglect makes up approximately this percentage of APS reports.
What is 49%?