Life Choice Solutions - Hoarding and/or Squalor
Life Choice Solutions provide a dedicated service that is client focused and centres around dignity, respect, confidentiality, choice and control. We use a holistic approach to help you because we understand that your belongings and collections are uniquely individual. We especially understand how traumatic the notion of decluttering can be.
Our aim is to build trust with you, whilst promoting emotional encouragement and reassurance so you feel confident to reclaim space. We take one small step at a time, and work at your own pace. We create a personalised plan that assists you in obtaining your goals, and endorse your choice and control over your belongings.
Doing the journey together, we will share our skills and experience to support you to reduce and re-organise your possessions. Then, when you have reached your goals, we help devise practical methods to help you stay on top of ‘acquiring’ more items than can be managed.
Life Choice Solutions knows how distressing intervention can be. Our primary goal is to find your comfort zone and work towards building your confidence to expand it. This enables you to reduce the impact of your living environment, one item at a time, and most importantly, at your own pace.
How it works
Typically, Life Choice Solutions will visit to conduct a confidential assessment. During the assessment you will be asked for your long-term goals surrounding your belongings. We would then devise smaller achievable goals that can be accomplished in shorter time frames -working toward your long-term goals.
This will involve sorting through your belongings. It is completely up to you what you keep or discard. There is absolutely no pressure to throw out anything. We help you to sort, reorganise and restructure how and where your items should go. This will help to create space and make your home safer and more practical to maintain.
If you think our service is suitable to you, please reach out and call us, or come in for a chat over a cuppa. You are not alone, and we understand how difficult a crowded life can be.
Providers
Hoarding and cluttering can occur in a range of household types and age groups. Hoarding is different to Squalor though both can be present simultaneously. People who live in squalor, can often present as unkempt and malodorous. They can be very guarded of themselves and their homes.
Life Choice Solutions understands Hoarding and Squalor is a complex issue. It cannot be fixed by simply clearing out the home. We can provide this kind of service, but our specialised team know it does not work, as it does not address the underlying problems which cause the behaviour in the first place.
This makes it difficult for providers to know how to provide support. It’s important to seek professional help with hoarding or squalor as it may reflect underlying mental health problems.
Generally, help is needed when hoarding interferes with a person’s daily functioning within their home. Visible cues are they no longer have counter or table spaces, and piles of belongings are spreading in height, depth and width. Their ‘collection’ is taking over their home, preventing the functionality of the rooms.
Our intervention is aimed to encourage healthier lifestyle choices, thereby improving quality of life and well-being for individuals (and their families) who are living in these conditions.
We do this by establishing good rapport as it is vital in order to decrease the client’s resistance to aid. We help individuals develop decision-making and organisational skills, while identifying and assisting to alter unhelpful thought patterns and habits.
Most important of all, we work at the client’s pace.
There is no one solution that fits all, and Life Choice Solutions is equally flexible. We are happy conduct initial assessments to develop strategies and goals with the client. We can coordinate or collaborate with Coordinators, OT’s, Psychologists and BSP’s to support the client through each milestone.
We can also equip providers with information sessions, training staff to provide informed support as well as how to minimise client trips/falls, and maximise workers safety.
Life Choice Solutions also provides a maintenance support service to help each individual keep building upon their confidence and skill. Thus, gaining substantial lifestyle improvements and aiding to manage sustainable living conditions.
As mentioned, we can provide service to clear out and clean a residence, for example to avoid evictions. This kind of service can be very traumatic for the client, and why we whole heartedly encourage intervention.
Call us if your client is acquiring more than they can cope with. Or likewise, if you fear someone is living in squalor.
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Address: 2/67-73 The Boulevarde Toronto, NSW
ABN: 72 664 010 922
Registration Number NDIS: 4-19S7LWA