Can Occupational Therapy Address the Occupational Implications of Hoarding?

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Initial search terms	Hoarding; hoarding disorder, hoarding disorder, hoarding assessment, and hoarding treatment; hoarding and interventions; occupational therapy; occupational therapy and hoarding; hoarding and roles; hoarding and routines; health and wellbeing and hoarding; hoarding and occupational science
Revised search terms	Hoarding disorder and occupational therapy; hoarding disorder and treatment and assessment
	Specific parameters for assessment (risk/needs/symptom) were applied to narrow results. No parameters were applied to define treatment, but when reviewing titles of literature, treatment that was not peer-reviewed was excluded.
Inclusion criteria	Written in English
	Any literature which contained search terms of hoarding AND occupational therapy/occupational science
Exclusion criteria	Studies conducted on hoarding prior to 2000
	Hoarding studies conducted with children
	Hoarding studies focusing on specific types of hoarding, e.g., animal, shopping
	All duplicates found in other searches were removed.