Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet/Stockholm University, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 171 65, Solna, Sweden.
Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet/Stockholm University, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 171 65, Solna, Sweden; Dalarna University, School of Education, Health and Social Studies, 791 88, Falun, Sweden.
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 Mar 1;196:40-45. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.12.011. Epub 2019 Jan 15.
Today's older people drink more alcohol than earlier cohorts of older people. Social integration has been identified as an important factor for older people's drinking, but the association is complex. This study investigates both high and low levels of social integration and their associations with longitudinal patterns of alcohol consumption among older women and men.
Longitudinal nationally representative data of older Swedish women and men aged over 65 - the Swedish Level of Living Survey (LNU) and Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old (SWEOLD) - from 2010/2011 and 2014 (n = 1048). Associations between social contacts and social activities at baseline and longitudinal patterns of drinking frequency were examined with multinomial logistic regression analyses.
Men reported drinking alcohol more often than women, but the most common drinking frequency among both women and men was to drink monthly or less. Drinking habits were generally stable over time. People with high levels of social activity at baseline were more likely to have a stable daily or weekly drinking frequency or increased drinking frequency over the four-year follow-up period, particularly women. People with low levels of social contacts and/or social activities were less likely to have a stable daily or weekly drinking frequency, compared to people in the low and stable drinking frequency group.
Alcohol consumption is embedded in a social context, older people drink in social situations and social integration predicts continued drinking patterns.
如今，老年人的饮酒量比以往几代老年人都多。社会融合已被确定为老年人饮酒的一个重要因素，但这种关联很复杂。本研究调查了高水平和低水平的社会融合及其与老年女性和男性饮酒的纵向模式之间的关系。
2010/2011 年和 2014 年，对瑞典年龄在 65 岁以上的女性和男性进行了全国代表性的纵向调查，包括瑞典生活水平调查（LNU）和瑞典最年长老年人生活状况研究（SWEOLD）（n=1048）。使用多项逻辑回归分析，考察了基线时的社会联系和社会活动与饮酒频率的纵向模式之间的关联。
男性报告饮酒频率高于女性，但女性和男性最常见的饮酒频率是每月或更少。饮酒习惯在时间上通常是稳定的。基线时社会活动水平较高的人更有可能在四年的随访期间保持稳定的每日或每周饮酒频率或增加饮酒频率，尤其是女性。与低水平和稳定饮酒频率组相比，社会联系和/或社会活动水平较低的人不太可能保持稳定的每日或每周饮酒频率。
饮酒行为嵌入在社会背景中，老年人在社交场合饮酒，社会融合预测持续的饮酒模式。
