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The middle-aged are set to overtake young people as the country’s problem drinkers.
NHS statistics have suggested that baby boomers are on course to overtake young people as the country’s problem drinkers. Among the middle-aged hospital admissions for mental disorders that are linked to alcohol have surged by a fifth in the last five years.
There has been an increase of 21 percent in the number of over 50s admitted to the hospital. For addiction, memory loss, and dementia linked to drinking since 2013/2014. But in those aged between 15-49 admissions have fallen by seven percent in the same period.
Young people are drinking a lot less than they did in the past. But alcohol is a very central part of their parent’s generation. The negative effects of drinking on middle-aged and older people are a growing problem according to Katherine Severi from the Institute of Alcohol studies. Besides o increases in cancers and strokes, mental problems related to alcohol, are another area where the impact of older people’s drinking on their health is becoming too strong to ignore.
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