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Download full textDupree, Larry W.; Schonfeld, Lawrence – 1985
The Gerontology Alcohol Project, a treatment/research program investigating the characteristics of the late-life onset elderly alcohol abuser, was used as a model for a new program which emphasized teaching the elderly abusers how to break down their personal drinking behavior chain and deal with the antecedents of drinking behavior, to use…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Alcohol Education, Alcoholism
Schonfeld, Lawrence; Dupree, Larry W. – 1984
This paper describes the Gerontology Alcohol Project (GAP), which was established by the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse as a pilot treatment/research project for late life drinkers, those who begin abusing alcohol after age 50. Two strategies developed by GAP for identifying elderly alcohol abusers are described including…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Behavior Modification, Drinking, Drug Rehabilitation
