Assessing the Usability of Web-Based Alcohol Education for Older Adults: A Feasibility Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older adults can experience unfavorable health effects from drinking at relatively low consumption levels because of age-related physiological changes and alcohol's potentially adverse interactions with declining health, increased medication-use and diminishing functional status. At the same time, alcohol use in older adults may be protective against heart disease, stroke, and other disorders associated with aging. We developed "A Toast to Health in Later Life! Wise Drinking as We Age," a web-based educational intervention to teach older adults to balance drinking risks and benefits.

Objective

To examine the intervention's feasibility in a sample of community-dwelling current drinkers ≥55 years of age and examine its effects on their quantity and frequency of alco

SUBMITTER: Fink A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4754533 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature