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Future Directions for Aging and Alcohol

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This final chapter provides recommendations from the Editors with regard to future research, policy, and practice initiatives in the field of alcohol and aging in light of the current body of research in this area. Overall, this text has highlighted the need for cross-disciplinary research that accounts for the ever changing, diverse, and growing population of older adults, both nationally and globally. In response to these changes, this chapter proposes a series of research topics to address gaps in the current literature on alcohol use and older adults. In addition, the Editors outline a number of practice and policy initiatives that can be implemented to improve prevention of and intervention addressing unhealthy drinking among older adults.

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  1. Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College at the City University of New York, 2180 Third Avenue, Rm 435, New York, NY, 10035, USA

    Alexis Kuerbis L.C.S.W., Ph.D.

  2. Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0665, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA

    Alison A. Moore M.D., M.P.H.

  3. School of Social Work, University of Maryland-Baltimore, 525 West Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

    Paul Sacco Ph.D., M.S.W.

  4. Department of Behavioral and Community Health: School of Public Health, University of Maryland, 4200 Valley Drive, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Faika Zanjani Ph.D.

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Kuerbis, A., Moore, A.A., Sacco, P., Zanjani, F. (2016). Future Directions for Aging and Alcohol. In: Kuerbis, A., Moore, A., Sacco, P., Zanjani, F. (eds) Alcohol and Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47233-1_17

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