Older women are drinking more – Dagens Industri

Older women are drinking more – Dagens Industri

Older women drink more

                  2014-07-28 01:32
             

Elderly Swedes drink more and more, and the greatest increase is among 75-year-old women. It shows a study by researchers at the Centre for Ageing and Health at the University of Gothenburg, writes GP.

There has compared how much beer, wine and liquor as

75-year-olds consumed in the mid-1970s , by how much the same age drinking today.

One in ten 75-year-old woman today can be classified as risk consumer, compared with 0.6 percent 30 years ago.