Mike Fox and Lesley Wilson, Counselling Older People with Alcohol Problems, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2011, 208 pp., pbk £19.99, ISBN 13: 978 1 84905 117 0.

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 720-721
Author(s):  
LOUISE MCCABE
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Alcohol Problems

scholarly journals Alkohol och äldre

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 417-426
Author(s):  
Tommi Sulander
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Older People ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
Average Amount ◽  
Moderate Drinking ◽  
The Past ◽  
Alcohol Tax ◽  
Heavy Drinkers ◽  
Increasing Trend

T. Sulander: Increasing numbers of older people use alcohol The number of older people using alcohol has increased and abstinence has decreased over the past few decades in Finland. However, the average amount of consumed alcohol per week has remained the same. The rapid lowering of alcohol taxes in 2004 led to a slight increase in alcohol use among people aged 65–84. The number of older people in need of care for their alcohol problems has increased parallel to the increasing trend of moderate drinking. It is, however, difficult to reach heavy drinkers by using different research methods. Therefore, their number in the population could only be estimated. Alcohol use in Finland has been increasing steadily already before the alcohol tax was considerably lowered in 2004. To reverse this negative trend, alcohol taxes should be considerably increased and health promotion activities should be initiated.

scholarly journals Out of the ordinary: Media reports on wet eldercare facilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 330-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Håkan Jönson ◽  
Tove Harnett
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Older People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The City ◽  
Care For Older People

The aim of this article was to investigate presentations of “wet” eldercare facilities in Sweden, a type of facility that provides care for older people with long-term alcohol problems and where the consumption of alcohol is allowed. Wet eldercare facilities challenge traditional Swedish policy on alcohol treatment, and their approach constitutes a breach of mainstream policies on alcohol and treatment, where abstinence is a goal. Data for the study consisted of articles that reported on two nursing homes in the City of Gothenburg during 1995–2017, a total of 65 articles. Qualitative content analysis was used to identify relevant themes. The study revealed that with the exception of a media scandal at one of the facilities in 2017, reports were mostly positive. Residents were portrayed as “chronic” alcoholics (kroniker) who were resistant to treatment, but in need of the type of permissive approach and care that was provided at the facilities. In the article we refer to this as a framework of matched arrangements. Readers of several media reports were invited to see the person behind the scruffy addict and the approach was in some cases developed into a critique of unrealistic ambitions of mainstream treatment. This critique was, however, not developed into a coherent framework. A conclusion was that the surprisingly positive portrayal of residents and descriptions of the facilities as “different” should be understood in relation to the way the media creates interest by reporting on events and arrangements that appear as out of the ordinary.

scholarly journals Squalor, chaos and feelings of disgust: care workers talk about older people with alcohol problems

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 1624-1644 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIS BODIL KARLSSON ◽  
EVY GUNNARSSON
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Older People ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Care Recipients ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The One ◽  
Home Care Workers

ABSTRACTOlder persons with alcohol problems have today become an all too common part of everyday elder care, but research in this area is still scarce. This article has a Swedish context with the aim of describing and analysing home care workers’ narratives about older people who can be characterised as heavy drinkers, i.e. people with severe alcohol problems who need considerable care for extended periods. Limited knowledge is available concerning this age group. This article therefore fills a knowledge gap about home care workers’ perspective about body work and the abject, and breaches the myth that older individuals should be able to drink as they prefer and/or notions of drinking alcohol as a last enjoyment in life. The care workers talked about how they got drawn into the daily lives of the care recipients and how they ended up in situations where they, on the one hand, removed the consequences of drinking, and on the other, felt that they sustained the drinking by cleaning out dirt and washing the care recipients’ bodies.

Community-based case–control study of depression in older people

1999 ◽  
Vol 175 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. M. Copeland ◽  
Ruoling Chen ◽  
Michael Dewey ◽  
C. F. M. McCracken ◽  
Chris Gilmore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Older People ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Mental Problems ◽  
Assisted Diagnosis

BackgroundRisk factors of depression in later life, particularly for sub-cases and for psychotic and neurotic types of depression, are unclear.AimsTo identify such risk factors.MethodOver 5200 older people ($65 years), randomly selected from Liverpool, were interviewed using the Geriatric Mental State (GMS)and the Minimum Data Set (MDS). The computer-assisted diagnosis AGECAT identified 483 cases and 575 sub-cases of depression and 2451 with no mental problems. Logistic regression was employed to examine factors relevant to caseness.ResultsIn multiple logistical regression, odds ratios (ORs) were significantly high for being female (2.04, 95% CI 1.56–2.69), widowed (2.00, 1.18–3.39), having alcohol problems (4.37, 1.40–2.94), physical disablement (2.03, 1.40–2.94), physical illness (1.98,.1.25–3.15), taking medications to calm down (10.04, 6.41 −15.71), and dissatisfaction with life (moderate 4.54, 3.50–5.90; more severe 29.00, 16.00–52.59). Good social networks reduced the ORs. If sub-cases were included as controls, the statistical significance was reduced.ConclusionsAge was not associated with depression in later life whereas gender, physical disablement and dissatisfaction with life were. The sub-cases shared many risk factors with cases, suggesting that prevention may need to be attempted at an early stage.

scholarly journals ”Vi möter de ofrivilliga” – socialsekreterare om äldre personer med missbruksproblem

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evy Gunnarsson ◽  
Lis-Bodil Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Addiction Treatment ◽  
Elder Care ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
Treatment Interventions ◽  
The Social

”We meet the involuntary” – social workers talk about older people with alcohol problemsSocial workers working in addiction teams in the municipalities rarely have documented collaboration with elder care managers despite the fact that older people with alcohol problems have become more common within elder care, especially home care services. There are few studies of older people with alcohol problems, and knowledge on the subject is scarce. The aim of this study was to investigate how social workers within addiction treatment talk about older people with alcohol problems. Six group interviews and three individual interviews have taken place including a total of 18 social workers. The social workers came from seven different municipalities. Social workers usually meet older people with a long history of abuse and several institutional stays behind them. Many are reluctant to have further contact with social services. In the case of older persons with alcohol problems it is seldom considered appropriate to initiate treatment interventions. Older persons could however sometimes get a place at an abuse institution to get in better shape. In the interviews elder care is often looked upon as a way to get a better situation around an older person with alcohol problems. There are few treatment programmes aimed at older people with alcohol abuse problems. According to the social workers there is a lack of adequate institutional care and various social activities. Nor do older people with alcohol problems fit into activities organized by elder care. One conclusion is the need to develop different treatment interventions targeted at older people with alcohol problems as well as to develop cooperation between elder care and addiction teams.

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