Try: Alcoholism is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages often alcoholism impacts drinker drinker’s health personal relationships and social standing the disease is often progressive and fatal in a Care recipient (cr) it is characterized by impaired control over drinking preoccupation with the drug alcohol use of alcohol despite adverse consequences and a distortion in thinking most notably denial when the focus is solely on the aging population the american medical association expands this definition to say "the onset or continuation of drinking behavior that becomes problematic because of physiological or psychological changes that occur with aging including increased sensitivity to alcohol effects " alcoholism in the elderly may go unnoticed because of isolation or the belief that the elderly are not at risk information references www agingandaddiction net
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Keywords: Alcoholism substance abuse
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