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Recently, the citizen hotline 12345 received a report from a resident of Idejiayuan Community, Jiangqiao Town, Jiading District: a 60-year-old man living alone in the community likes to hoard garbage and sundries, which not only fill her residence, but also encroach on the public space on the corridor and the second floor, bringing great inconvenience to the daily life of other residents.
It is reported that the elderly have long developed the habit of collecting sundries, but they have never sold them, resulting in the public space of the home and the community gradually occupied by these waste items, forming hills. Despite repeated attempts by neighbors to persuade her to clean up, she never accepted.
Aunt Li, a resident, said, "The garbage that has accumulated for a long time has fermented, and every time I pass by, I can smell the stench, which affects everyone's life." But after many mediations by the neighborhood committee, the elderly have been stubbornly hoarding and ignoring the impact.
In March this year, due to the residents' complaints again, the Jiangqiao Town Community Construction Office was deeply involved in dealing with the problem in accordance with the working mechanism of "repeated work order escalation". Jiangqiao Town comprehensive administrative law enforcement personnel came to communicate with the elderly and their daughters. Considering that the elderly suffer from physical illnesses and it is difficult to solve the underlying problem in a compulsory manner, the community medical staff are asked to solve the problem by counseling and comforting the elderly. However, it still took a long time, and it was difficult to make substantial progress in door-to-door communication again and again.
After a month of continuous dialogue and consultation, the old lady finally agreed to cooperate in removing the accumulated items. With the joint efforts of 20 special security team members and 15 urban cleaning workers, a total of 24 tons of garbage and debris were completely cleaned up after nearly 9 hours of cleaning.
Why do you always like to hoard things when you are old? Doctor: Excessive hoarding is a disease!
If the hoarding behavior of the elderly has seriously affected the normal life of themselves and others, they should be vigilant about hoarding disorder. There is a clear difference between hoarding disorder and daily hoarding behavior, which can be judged by two characteristics:
One is that hoarding behavior continues for a long time, regardless of whether something is valuable and practical, it is difficult to discard, otherwise it will feel painful;
Second, hoarding behavior seriously affects normal life and social functions, such as serious accumulation of things, beyond the acceptable range of ordinary people, resulting in a bad living environment and affecting interpersonal communication.
And if the elderly like to spare a cabinet at home for old things they used when they were young: a radio, a few boxes of old tapes, a few diaries, a few old newspapers...... Such a hoarding of old things, moderate nostalgia can add points to health. Through research in the field of psychology, Dr. Hal McDonald, author of The Anatomist of Medicine, has summarized the four main parts of the nostalgia plot: self-reflection, autobiographical memory, emotional regulation, and reward. Nostalgia has been found to affect neural activity in multiple brain structures and has healing properties for mood and memory disorders.
As we age, the physical and psychological condition of the elderly may change and require more care and protection.
In order to meet the physical and psychological needs of the elderly, Yunlan has launched a decoration service for the elderly. Through the decoration of the elderly, the decoration design and renovation of the living room for the elderly provides a safe, comfortable and convenient living environment for the elderly owners. And it can also be customized according to the owner's hobbies and collections. It can create a sorting and sorting space for the owner's collection and old objects, provide a good preservation environment, and avoid damage.
Case Tasting | 110㎡ Fengxian couple's retirement residence: tear down the wall and renovate the large storage space, and the collection has a new home
The apartment is occupied by a retired couple, and the owners have a collection of thousands of items, including books and car models, and we considered removing all the non-load-bearing walls when we designed it, and then used the cabinet as a partition to enlarge the storage as much as possible. On the bathroom side, consider separating dry and wet, and separate the dry area basin from the wet area independently, so as to make the toilet more efficient. The small room on the north side is made into an independent study, and the cabinets on both sides are used for the storage of books, and the overall style is simple and atmospheric, comfortable and livable.
In this new house renovation project, we not only meet the aesthetic preferences and collection function needs of the owners, but also improve the temperature and comfort of home life through design and transformation. If you also have a house decoration, please contact us, the building area of 66 square meters 110,000 is really all-inclusive, and the decoration is good and inexpensive.
Yunlan has been specializing in Shanghai home decoration for 21 years, and now the repeat customers and referral business have accounted for more than 4% of the total business. Shanghai Home Improvement is leading in repeat customers, Shanghai Home Improvement is leading in customer satisfaction, and it is a leading word-of-mouth brand. We have always adhered to the principle of free door-to-door measurement, free 360° effect design, free list quotation, fixed construction team, and no subcontracting or contracting of the project. Good decoration> looking for Yunlan, reliable!