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© 1987 Medical Council on Alcohol

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ALCOHOL AND THE ELDERLY: RELATIONSHIPS TO ILLNESS AND SMOKING

GORDON D. JENSEN and PAULINE BELLECCI

Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A.

Correspondence should be sent to: Gordon D. Jensen, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis Medical Center, 2315 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817, U.S.A.

Received 18 September 1985; accepted 2 October 1986

A group of 33 semi-independent living nonagenarian men and a group of 32 65–75 year-old men of similar demographic characteristics, living at the California Veterans' Home, were compared in terms of alcohol use, past and present, and relationships to several somatic, mental and lifestyle aspects including smoking. The younger group had a higher prevalence of alcohol abuse and higher current alcohol intake (P <0.004). Higher alcohol intake related to greater smoking of cigarettes in the younger group. Alcohol tended to be related to an increased number of medical illnesses, and to increased use of major medications (P <0.005). There was an interactive effect between classes of alcohol use and scores on a mental status examination used to assess cognitive function (P <0.05).


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