{"id":2027,"date":"2011-04-10T20:45:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T00:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenofhoarders.com\/wordpress\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2011-04-10T20:53:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T00:53:04","slug":"elder-hoarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"Elder Hoarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>=Elder Hoarding &#8211; Buried in possessions, a growing problem for elders and their families in Michigan=<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>=Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garanlucow.com\/new2\/Pages\/bios\/fanning.htm\">Suzy Fanning<\/a> on September 13, 2010=<\/div>\n<p>If the elder person&#8217;s hoarding is extreme enough that it poses a  physical risk, the family members should contact Adult Protective  Services where a representative trained in this disorder can begin to  address the problem.\u00a0 Another possibility is for\u00a0for a family member to  seek guardianship over the elder hoarder through the probate court\u00a0if  the hoarder is determined to lack capacity to do some of the tasks  necessary to care for his or her person or property.\u00a0 Once appointed as  guardian, the family member can\u00a0protect the elder\u00a0against foreclosure or  eviction.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Finally, if the\u00a0hoarding\u00a0is severe\u00a0enough, the family  member or a professional can petition the probate court for an  involuntary mental commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganestatejournal.com\/elder-law\/elder-hoarding---buried-in-possessions-a-growing-problem-for-elders-and-their-families-in-michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>=Elder Hoarding &#8211; Buried in possessions, a growing problem for elders and their families in Michigan= =Posted by Suzy Fanning on September 13, 2010= If the elder person&#8217;s hoarding is extreme enough that it poses a physical risk, the family members should contact Adult Protective Services where a representative trained in this disorder can begin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/?p=2027\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helping-2","category-intervening","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}