Alcohol use among older adults

PD St John, WM Snow, SL Tyas - Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 2010 - cambridge.org
… We will then review the evidence for diagnosing and helping older adults with alcohol use
issues. This is a traditional narrative review, with inherent biases and limitations. A literature …

[HTML][HTML] The association of lifetime alcohol use with mortality and cancer risk in older adults: A cohort study

AT Kunzmann, HG Coleman, WY Huang… - PLoS medicine, 2018 - journals.plos.org
… This analysis is limited to older adults, and residual confounding by socioeconomic factors
… The study supports a J-shaped association between alcohol and mortality in older adults, …

Association of alcohol use and loneliness frequency among middle-aged and older adult drinkers

SL Canham, PM Mauro… - Journal of aging and …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
… abuse and loneliness, we found that less frequent alcohol use among middle-aged and
older adult drinkers was associated with feelings of loneliness; problematic drinking patterns, …

Marital histories and heavy alcohol use among older adults

C Reczek, T Pudrovska, D Carr… - Journal of health …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
older adults than for younger adults and is less common among the cohorts of older adults
… cohorts of midlife and older adults (Brown and Lin 2012); therefore older adults may be more …

Alcohol use and alcohol-use disorders among older adults in India: a literature review

A Nadkarni, P Murthy, IB Crome, R Rao - Aging & mental health, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
… The aim of this review is to get a broad high-level view of the available literature on alcohol
use and alcohol-use disorders in older adults in India and also to examine the gaps in and …

Trends in older adults' alcohol use in Norway 1985–2019

EK Bye, IS Moan - Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… To what extent the increased alcohol use among older adults will affect injury and accident
… monitoring the alcohol use of older adults is therefore important. Registered alcohol sales in …

[HTML][HTML] Canadian guidelines on alcohol use disorder among older adults

PR Butt, M White-Campbell, S Canham… - Canadian Geriatrics …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is an increasingly common, under-recognized, and under-treated
health concern in older adults. Its … , assessment, and treatment of AUD in older adults. …

Alcohol use, comorbidity, and mortality

AA Moore, L Giuli, R Gould, P Hu… - Journal of the …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… study, older adults consuming what is typically considered light to moderate amounts of alcohol
use (… risk for harm from alcohol (eg, have gout, take a medication for insomnia regularly). …

Relapse prevention and maintaining abstinence in older adults with alcohol-use disorders

C Barrick, GJ Connors - Drugs & aging, 2002 - Springer
alcohol abuse is due, in part, to the facts that the effects of alcohol use among older adults
tend to be less clearly visible than among other age groups and that older adults are less …

Risks of combined alcohol/medication use in older adults

AA Moore, EJ Whiteman, KT Ward - The American journal of geriatric …, 2007 - Elsevier
… Given that age is also a risk factor for GERD,69 older adults with GERD and who consume
up to 1 to 2 drinks daily should be advised to observe whether this amount of alcohol use