Alcohol use of older adults: Drinking alcohol for medicinal purposes

Age and Ageing

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 633-637

  Immonen, Sirpa ^a,b,c   Valvanne, Jaakko ^d   Pitkälä, Kaisu H ^b,c  

^a Services for the Elderly   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANEMIA; ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FINLAND; FRACTURE; GENDER; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; INDIGESTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEISURE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; NEOPLASM; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEPTIC ULCER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RED WINE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF MEDICATION; SLEEP DISORDER; STROKE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF MEDICATION;

EID: 80051711578     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afr089     Document Type: Letter

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