Hoarding Can Create Crisis for Local Seniors

Hoarding can create crisis for local seniors

Living areas stuffed with possessions can uproot senior citizens if they live in senior apartments or need home health or emergency services.

'I will have nothing': Elderly hoarder in Bedok fears volunteers will throw away belongings

His home is choc-a-bloc with things he has collected over the years, but he does not want to part with them.The 78-year-old man, known as Lim, lives alone in a Bedok Reservoir flat and is worried that the charity trying to help him clean up his house may leave him with "nothing", according to Shin Min Daily News.He sells the stuff collected to earn a living. Lim told the Chinese daily that he was worried volunteers would "throw everything away".…

Elderly man sleeps outdoors as Bedok flat overflows with junk

An elderly man living alone in a rental flat in Bedok Reservoir has been sleeping on a chair at the void deck every night - because his home is so packed with clutter there's no room for him inside....