Serving Seniors Blog: July, 2011If your elderly parents had an alcohol problem, would you be able to tell? Do you know the symptoms to look for? Would you know what to do? I've worked in many areas in my career including alcohol treatment, which has given me great insights, especially when dealing with the elderly.

Use the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator to find an alcohol treatment program in your area.https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/

Less than half of alcoholics over 65 are diagnosed, a Penn State study has shown, because often the telltale signs of alcohol dependence are masked by patient denial and seeming good health.Click here for more: https://alcoholism.about.com/cs/elder/a/blpenn030627.htm

Although alcohol and substance abuse is statistically at epidemic proportions among the elderly, it remains for the most part unreported, undiagnosed, or ignored.Find out more: https://alcoholism.about.com/cs/elder/a/aa981118.htm

Four out of five people of retirement age who seek substance abuse treatment do so because of alcohol problems, instead of abuse of drugs, indicating again that alcohol abuse by older adults is a growing and many times ignored problem.Read the entire article here : https://alcoholism.