… We aimed to describe the characteristics of 538 instances of self-neglect reported to an … to
an interdisciplinary geriatrics medicine team. We report the demographics, medical diagnoses, …

… Citation26 Correspondingly, such adverse outcomes and other medical comorbidities
associated with self-neglect may result in greater health care and social service utilization. Recent …

… Institute (TEAM) for a physical and mental evaluation. TEAM is a consortium of medical
and … collectively to investigate, assess, and assist victims of elder abuse and self-neglect. …

… I have a tendency not to call the clients before I show up because a cardinal feature of self-neglect
is that they refuse medical care. My big red flag of a safety hazard is that if her …

… medicine teams, self-neglecters had substantially lower rates of health care utilization than
their non-self-neglecting … , people who self-neglect tend to avoid medical services prior to …

… as part of a multi-disciplinary team after ED/hospital evaluation or regularly … team up with
social workers and make house visits, I think we're in a position to appreciate both the medical …

… self-neglect cases and health and social care professionals play a key role in the identification,
management and prevention of self-neglect. … of self-neglect among community nurses. …

… of selfneglect definitions and policy context of self-neglect, executive functioning (EF) and
self-neglect, and … viewed their behaviors as “personal and medical neglect”(p. 6). Day et al.…

… The KELS is a practical assessment tool used by most occupational therapists and can
be utilized, with modest training, by most members of the medical team in the clinic or at the …

… (2000) the prevalence of depression was compared between self-neglecters and individuals
referred to a geriatric medicine team. In this study self-neglecters were found to have a …