Thanks for sharing, but I guess all of us seniors have a touch of this. lots of memories, but our kids really don't want the stuff we wanted from our parents and grandparents. Times have changed.

No, this isn't anything like what you describe. "Squalor" is the word that describes it. If you are living like this, or suggest that "all of us" have a touch of it, you don't understand the syndrome. My MIL went out to the hospital on a stretcher, and the house had to literally be shoveled out by professions wearing masks, and she could never return: the house was damaged down to the studs. The Wedgwood china and everything else was trashed.

There is indication of neurological damage. Here's more to read.

Here is a link that might be useful: self-neglect