“…Reflecting the attempt to medicalize self-neglect, the condition is variously referred to in this literature as: senile breakdown (Macmillan & Shaw 1966); Diogenes syndrome , Berlyne 1975, Henderson Smith 1975, Twomey 1975, Whitehead 1975, MacAnespie 1975, Clark 1975, Cornwall 1981, Kenny & Harrington 1985, Klosterkotter & Peters 1985, Moore 1989, Robben 1991, Gannon & OBoyle 1992, Wrigley & Cooney 1992, OMahony & Grimley Evans 1994; senile reclusion (Granick & Zeman 1960, Post 1982, 1985; senile squalor syndrome (Kafetz & Cox 1982, Shah 1990, 1992a; gross self-neglect (Cybulska & Rucinski 1986) and SBE (social breakdown of the elderly) syndrome (Ungvari & Hantz 1991a1991bRadebaugh et al 1987). This variety is in itself evidence of a debate about the nature and causes of incidents of extreme self-neglect in later life.…”