The Association between Age and Experienced Emotions in Hoarding Disorder.

Conclusions: Fear may not be the emotion experienced when discarding items, particularly for older adults with HD. Future work should focus on mechanisms of action in HD treatment.Clinical Implications: Clinicians should not assume fear or anxiety to be the primary emotional response in older adults with HD when engaged in an exposure to sorting/discarding. Older hoarding patients with a more fear-oriented aversion to sorting possessions may require a treatment emphasis on increasing the percentage of items discarded.
PMID: 32175823 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Gerontologist - March 17, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Tags: Clin Gerontol Source Type: research