Self-assessed stress-level among elderly seeking treatment for alcohol use disorder. A descriptive study

Empirical data regarding the stress-alcohol link in older people (+60 years of age) is largely lacking. In Denmark, as in most other Western Societies, older age groups report drinking to a higher extent than previous cohorts and consequently, an increasing numbers of older people seek treatment for alcohol use disorder. This new patient group represents a treatment challenge because so little is known about the real-world stressors and symptoms that this patient group experiences. As a part of an ongoing international multisite randomized controlled trial testing treatments targeting senior drinkers [the Elderly Study (Andersen et al, 2016)], we examined baseline data among +60 year drinkers seeking treatment at three Danish Alcohol Treatment Centers, n  = 349; 27% of the older treatment seeking drinkers reported problems with stress.

Source: Alcohol - May 1, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Anette S øgaard Nielsen, Randi Bilberg, Kjeld Andersen Source Type: research