Drinking habits of elderly Chinese |
| |
| Authors: | KUA EE HEOK MBBS MRCPsych |
| |
| Affiliation: | Senior Lecturer &Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 0511 |
| |
| Abstract: | A random sample of 612 elderly Chinese was interviewed on their drinking habits. About 36.5% never drank, 50.3% drank less than once a month, 10% between one and three times a month, and 3.2% four or more times a week. Only two subjects had symptoms of mild alcohol dependence with SADQ scores of 10 and 12, and another two had alcohol-related gastritis. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
|
|
