Hoarding disorder is an under-recognized serious mental illness that worsens with age. It affects 2.5% of the working-age population and 7% of older adults. That's about 715,000 Australians. People ...

Behind closed doors across the country, millions of individuals are quietly overwhelmed by something most of us take for granted: our relationship with things we bring into our homes. The ...

Helping aging parents with a hoarding disorder requires recognizing it as a mental health condition and approaching the situation with compassion rather than conflict. Creating a safe living space ...

Hoarding disorder is a mental health condition that makes it hard or impossible to throw things away. You save things regardless of how much they’re worth. Hoarding can make your living space ...

Hoarding disorder affects about 1 person in 40 in the United States. While most of us have at least a few prized possessions we’d have a hard time letting go of, those with this disorder are compelled ...

"I have a gremlin in my brain telling me to do these things," is how Emma Walton describes her impulse to hoard items. The 36-year-old from Brackley, Northamptonshire, says she struggled for a decade ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz have developed a simple, one-question screening tool that could help doctors quickly identify hoarding behaviors in patients with memory loss and ...

Co-authored by Shontae Cameron. Approximately 2 to 6 percent of the general population meet criteria for hoarding disorder (HD), with similar rates found in men and women, across developed countries.