American Drinking Practices: Summary of Findings from a National Probability Sample. I. Extent of Drinking by Population Subgroups

Cahalan, Don; Cisin, Ira H.

doi:10.15288/qjsa.1968.29.130

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“…Table 1 presents the percentage distributions of the collapsed categories for frequency of drinking and the quantity/frequency index. These percentages are comparable to those found in national and regional surveys on drinking in this age group (Borgatta et al 1982; Department of Health and Human Services 1981; Meyers et al 1981Meyers et al /1982Holzer et al 1984; Cahalan and Cisin 1968).…”

Section: Sociodemographic Variablessupporting

confidence: 81%

“…Surveys of local, regional, and national samples consistently find drinking behavior to be negatively associated with age; the elderly are less likely than younger persons to be drinkers, heavy drinkers, or problem drinkers (Barnes 1979;Meyers et al 1981Meyers et al /1982Butler et al 1982;Cahalan and Cisin 1968;Department of Health and Human Services 1981;Borgatta et al 1982;Holzer et al 1984;Smart and Liban 1982). However, some studies of institutionalized or under-treatment populations (Rosin and Glatt 1971;Apfeldorf et al 1972;Schuckit and Miller 1976) conclude that elderly alcohol abuse is a large and serious social problem that is under-recognized and under-reported (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 1982;Zimberg 1974aZimberg , 1974bPetersen and Whittington 1977;Glantz 1982;Smart and Liban 1982;Maddox et al 1984).…”

Section: Elderly Drinking Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social Learning Theory and Alcohol Behavior Among the Elderly

Akers

Greca

Cochran

et al. 1989

The Sociological Quarterly

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Research directly testing Akers's social learning theory has been thus far confined to teenage drug, drinking, and smoking behavior. This study extends the application of social learning theory to older adults' alcohol behavior. Data were gathered through face‐to‐face interviews of 1,410 people sixty years of age or over living in New Jersey and Florida in either retirement (age homogeneous) or age‐integrated communities. A social learning model of differential association, differential reinforcement, and definitions is supported by findings on elderly drinking behavior. As is true for younger age groups, drinking among the elderly is related to the norms and behavior of one's primary groups, one's own attitudes toward (definitions of) alcohol, and the balance of reinforcement for drinking.

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Section: Sociodemographic Variablessupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: Elderly Drinking Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Learning Theory and Alcohol Behavior Among the Elderly

Akers

Greca

Cochran

et al. 1989

The Sociological Quarterly

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“…(2) The prevalence here of alcohol abuse for women is little short of that for men, a finding at variance with most reports for younger age groups, where men predominate (Bailey et al, 1965;Calahan and Cisin, 1968;Edwards et al, 1973;King, 1986), but in keeping with other reports for the elderly (Rosin and Glatt, 1971).…”

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confidence: 50%

Alcohol abuse and dementia

King¹

1986

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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Elderly outpatients on the register of the Alzheimer's Disease clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, were screened for alcohol abuse, the aim being to assess the r81e of alcohol in their dementia.Twenty one percent were found to be heavy drinkers or alcohol abusers, at some time in the past. Sixty-four percent of these had been actively drinking at the time of onset of first symptoms of the dementia. Clinicians need to be alert to the possibility that alcohol may be an aetiological factor in their elderly patients presenting with dementia.KEY woRDs-AlcohoI abuse, Alzheimer's disease, dementia.

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“…Response rates to questionnaires to alcoholics even from well motivated groups such as members of A.A. tend to be lower (Jellinek 1946, Bohince and Orenstein 1950, Hore 1974, than those reported from questionnaire studies of other groups of patients including patients suffering from other psychiatric disorders, (Cooper 1965, Goldberg andBlackwell 1970). In community surveys, Mulford and Miller (1959) found 20-7 per cent ofthe sample population refused to be interviewed whilst Cahalan and Cisin (1968) found 22 per cent of heavy drinkers refused to be interviewed, and 12-15 per cent not classified as heavy drinkers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%