Aging & addiction
Subtitle: helping older adults overcome alcohol or medication dependence
By: Carol Colleran & Debra Jay ; with a foreword by Barry McCaffrey.
Contributors: Jay, Debra, 1954-
Series: A Hazelden guidebook
Publisher: Hazelden
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Center City, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Older people -- Alcohol use; Older people -- Drug use; Alcoholism -- Treatment; Drug abuse -- Treatment; Substance-Related Disorders -- therapy -- Aged
Other titles: Aging and addiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: section 1.; title: Family responses to addicted older adults --; title: Addiction isn't one of life's last pleasures --; title: A few things you should know --; title: Wrong thinking blocks right action --; title: Alcoholism accelerates aging -; title: The older adult's addiction affects the health of the spouse (and anyone else closely involved) --; title: When helping becomes enabling --; title: Ignoring the problem can preserve the problem -- -- section 2.; title: Alcohol, prescription drugs, and addiction --; title: Chemical dependency is a disease --; title: Evidence that alcoholism is genetic --; title: Alcoholism begins at any age --; title: Identifying alcoholism and prescription drug abuse --; title: Ways older adults misuse medications --; title: Addiction to prescription drugs --; title: Alcohol and the older woman -- -- section 3.; title: How to help an addicted older adult --; title: A self-preserving disease --; title: Different worldviews --; title: Start with a talk --; title: A conversation with an addicted older adult --; title: Involving the family physician --; title: Take advantage of a crisis --; title: Join hand s --; title: Forget what you think you know --; title: Actual intervention letters --; title: learn about family intervention --; title: Plan, plan, plan --; title: A dramatization of an intervention --; title: Another ending -- -- section 4.; title: Understanding treatment for older adults --; title: What exactly is treatment --; title: Special treatment needs of older adults --; title: A tour of an older adult treatment program --; title: Groups designed for older adults -- -- section 5.; title: Issues in early recovery --; title: Make decisions before treatment ends --; title: Grief and loss --; title: Living life sober -- -- section 6.; title: Resources --; title: Older adult treatment centers --; title: Twelve step organizations --; title: Internet twelve step meetings --; title: Recovery resources --; title: Resources on aging --; title: Books and publications --; title: Videos --; title: Self-quizzes.