Current Studies
Cognitive Rehabilitation and Exposure Therapy for Geriatric Hoarding
UC San Diego Health
Abstract
Hoarding disorder (HD) is a chronic, progressive, and debilitating psychiatric condition that leads to devastating personal and community consequences, particularly for older adults. HD is defined by persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions due to distress associated with discarding, urges to save, and/or difficulty making decisions about what to keep and what to discard. As a result, clutter accumulates and fills active living areas, preventing the normal use of space and resulting in distress and disability. Community epidemiological reports estimate the prevalence of clinically significant hoarding symptoms at 7% in individuals over age 60 and even higher rates in those over age 70. HD is the only neuropsychiatric condition that progresses in severity and population prevalence with age apart from dementia. The specific aims include confirmatory efficacy of CREST, mechanisms of CREST effects, and moderators of CREST. If successful, this project would lead to an effectiveness trial in a real world setting.
Interested in this study for yourself or a client?
If you or your client is NOT a Veteran but lives in San Diego County, please call the community number at 619-543-6904 and leave their name, phone number, age, part of town they live in, and request to be put on the non-veteran interest list. We do have a waitlist, but we are going to work diligently to ensure community members get the support they need as quickly as possible. This research study will consist of two conditions: manualized cognitive rehabilitation/exposure therapy to sorting and discarding items vs. case management. This will likely involve a combination of in-home visits and telehealth visits and the treatment will be 26 sessions (1x/week for 1 hour).
Contact this team at:
619-543-6904