driven by increases by older women.”
Although their male counterparts are more likely to binge, older women are catching up. Binge drinking among older men remained relatively stable between 2005 to 2014.
Han says doctors should screen older adults for “unhealthy alcohol use, including binge drinking, even if it is not frequent.”
For the study, his team collected data on nearly 11,000 U.S. adults 65 and older who took part in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health between 2015 and 2017.
Of those, 10.6% had binged in the past month, the study found. That was up from
