The Alcoholic Elderly Client: Assessment of Policies and Practices of Service Providers
Open Access
- 1 October 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 24 (5) , 517-521
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/24.5.517
Abstract
A survey was conducted of 88 aging agencies serving approximately 11,000 clients to assess their capabilities for serving elderly with alcohol problems. It is believed that the identification of only 1% of this population as having drinking problems is an underestimate, given national findings. Alcoholism was not viewed as a major problem by agency administrators, but few policies and procedures for dealing with this population were extant. Implications for policy and program development are discussed.Keywords
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