Alcohol and Aging Clinical and Public Health Perspectives [Paperback]

This book provides a current perspective on alcohol and aging to better understand the trends, costs, benefits, and clinical and community evidenced-based strategies. This book embraces not only the physical, cognitive, psychological, and social health benefits of moderate drinking in the elderly, it also delves into the risks of excessive drinking, including physical and psychiatric morbidity, neurodegeneration, medication complications, and accidents and injuries, and loss of independence. Written by experts in the field, this book is the only current text that includes the most current scientific, research, empirical, and practice information alongside a comprehensive review of the status of the field that will help guide alcohol use management and stimulate future research.   

Alcohol and Aging is the ultimate resource for all researchers, educators, clinicians, and professionals working with older adults who drink.  

I. Introduction

1.Thinking Behind Alcohol Consumption in Old Age: Psychological and Sociological Reasons for Drinking in Old Age

Catherine Haighton

II. Epidemiological Perspectives of Alcohol and Aging

2.Understanding Alcohol Consumption Patterns among Older Adults: Continuity and Change

Paul Sacco

3.Alcohol Use and Comorbid Psychiatric and Sub-Syndromal Disorders among Older Adults

Alexis Kuerbis, Rachel Chernick and Daniel S. Gardner

III. Alcohol Effects on Healthy Aging

4.Alcohol Consumption and Cardiovascular Disealw