Research and News
There is new research and insightful conversations published each day and year on how to navigate clutter and the generational psychology behind it. Here are a few of my current interests and favorites we would love for you to consider and peruse. This page will be updated periodically as we find more research and news worthy of skim and read.
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Article
The New Yorker: What Professional Organizers Know About Our Lives2024.12.16 - Overwhelmed by too much stuff, we hire experts to help us sort things out. But what’s really behind all the clutter.
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Legislation
The Consequences of Clutter: How Hoarding Disorder Affects America's Older Adults, First Responders, and their Communities2024.07.01 - The US Senate report calls for national action on hoarding disorder. This is the first time Congress has addressed this disorder.
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Petition
Establish Licensed Professional Organizer (LPO) as a Recognized Allied Health Profession2024.04.20 - Our ultimate vision is for medical professionals to prescribe
licensed professional organizing services to address clinical clutter
and hoarding behaviors, revolutionizing treatment options and enhancing patient outcomes. The recognition of LPOs as allied health professionals will be transformative. -
Podcast
All There Is with Anderson Cooper2022.09.02 - Anderson Cooper takes us on a deeply personal exploration of loss and grief. He starts recording while packing up the apartment of his late mother Gloria Vanderbilt. Going through her journals and keepsakes, as well as things left behind by his father and brother, Cooper begins a series of emotional and moving conversations about the people we lose, the things they leave behind, and how to live on - with loss, with laughter, and with love.
"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 25, 1992