Alcohol use among older adults and health care utilization.

CONCLUSION: Older adults who have any history of alcohol use are more likely than abstainers to have had recent health care visits, more office visits, (but not moderate or heavy users), and less likely to have had an emergency department visit. PMID: 32757773 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32757773?dopt=Abstract

Source: Aging and Mental Health - August 5, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Bares CB, Kennedy A Tags: Aging Ment Health Source Type: research