Your Thoughts on Keith's case study
1) How do you react to what you have just heard?
2) What is the estimated percentage of the population that hoard?
3) How long can it take for a person to trust services that seek to help?
4) What percentage of fire deaths are likely to be caused by hoarding?
5) In what way might Keith possibly meet the criteria as an Adult at Risk of Harm? Set out why –
- Unable to safeguard
- At risk of harm
- Because he is affected…
6) Looking back, when did Keith’s hoarding behaviour begin?
7) What were the effects of hoarding on Keith and his home?
8) What was the impact of Keith’s friends ‘cleaning the place out’? What do we learn from that?
9) What prompted Keith to eventually seek help and support? And what happened next?
Thoughts of Other Learners
Results
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Hearing from others in a support group also seems to have helped Keith
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Keith's girlfriend shows the importance of change based on relationships and trust
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Keith’s story shows that simple solutions (such a clear-out’, even by his friends) do not work in the longer term
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The rep from the Fire Service speak of how they can help in such situations – getting alongside the person and ‘not judging’ but ‘helping to keep you safe’. Fire risks are very real for the person and neighbours
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Keith speaks in a very informed way about his history, yet seemed unable (in the past) to transfer his understanding into action
