Managing older people’s alcohol misuse in primary care

Managing older people's alcohol misuse in primary care.

Tackling alcohol misuse: opportunities and obstacles in primary care.

Alcohol misuse is a major public health issue. Primary care has been recognized as an ideal setting for the health promotional activity needed to reduce the general population's alcohol consumption. This paper explores the background to the current belief that primary care is suitable for this work by examining the evidence of the potentially successful interventions the general practitioner (G...

Managing Alcohol Use Disorder in Primary Health Care

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The aim of this study is to summarise the current literature on both the impact and the implementation of primary health care-based screening and advice programmes to reduce heavy drinking, as an evidence-based component of managing alcohol use disorder in primary health care. RECENT FINDINGS Systematic reviews of reviews find conclusive evidence for the impact of primary he...

Managing older adult driving safety in the primary care setting.

Melissa M. Amick, PhD  the number of drivers over the age of 75 will dramatically increase over the next few decades. Adults age 85 and older have the highest rate of driver fatalities. Individuals age 70 and older have the greatest motor vehicle fatality rates per mile driven compared to all but the riskiest age group, those 25 years and younger. Advanced age is also a risk factor for motor v...

Teaching postgraduates about managing drug and alcohol misuse.

A working group of the UK medical royal colleges reported recently on the core competencies needed by all postgraduate specialist trainees regarding substance misuse. This follows other recent reports, including those from individual royal colleges, parliament, and other stakeholders, that highlight the need to change the system by which we recognise and manage drug and alcohol misuse. Such cha...