The making of a Scrooge: Experts weigh in on why some older people are angry, isolated

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1. I'll throw this out.

Caused by dementia, personality disorders, and alienating their adult children with their perpetual nastiness and hoarding things. And not being bothered in the least about their piles of junk that are dangerous. They didn't WANT to socialize with anyone. They just stayed there and got older.


My parents had a house with trails through it. They tripped over their junk. One time I was up there and had to go to the nearest emergency room because their dust had triggered my allergies. They didn't care. They just looked at me like something was wrong with me, not with their house. Couldn't clean it up till the last one died.
Any time we tried to throw anything away, mom would go into crisis mode, freak out, growl at me, and then drag the trash back in from the curb. This was just a few days after she had carotid surgery.


After that it took my hubby and me 6 years of going there on weekends and whenever we could to make it habitable. Threw away 50 year old rotten hat boxes, gave away to a thrift store 33 purses I found in a shower stall used as a closet, sold at auction countless amounts of stuff, including good mahogany furniture that the young people don't want.