Characterization of 60 Year-Old and Older Patients Entering Emergency Rooms due to Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Argentina, December 2003 and October 2005

Demographic studies and projections made for the coming years inform about a significant increase ranging from 214 million of elderly people in 1950 to over 1 billion in 2005 i.e. the proportion increased from 8.5% to 13.7 % which would mean that by 2025 one out of every 7 people will be in the Seni...

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Autor principal: Castro Toschi, Rúben A.
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Publicado: Escuela de Salud Pública y Ambiente. Fac. Cs. Médicas UNC 2014
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Adultos mayores
droga
violencia
elderly people
drugs
violence
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/6914
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spelling I10-R360-article-69142025-04-03T12:07:46Z Characterization of 60 Year-Old and Older Patients Entering Emergency Rooms due to Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Argentina, December 2003 and October 2005 Caracterización de pacientes de 60 años y más que ingresan a salas de urgencias por uso indebido de alcohol y drogas. Argentina, diciembre de 2003 y octubre de 2005 Castro Toschi, Rúben A. Adultos mayores droga violencia elderly people drugs violence Demographic studies and projections made for the coming years inform about a significant increase ranging from 214 million of elderly people in 1950 to over 1 billion in 2005 i.e. the proportion increased from 8.5% to 13.7 % which would mean that by 2025 one out of every 7 people will be in the Senior category. Seniors are a population with little participation in economic activity and with a substantial increase of leisure time. Moreover, they are likely to suffer different social situations such as abandonment, loneliness, family misunderstanding, lack of social integration, etc. This may lead to an increased consumption of alcohol and licit or illicit drugs, making it an issue that will take new levels of complexity in this new era and must be addressed quickly and conscientiously in the future. In this paper we present a characterization of elderly people admitted to an emergency room, establishing the correlation between violence and alcohol or drug consumption. Los estudios demográficos y las proyecciones efectuadas para los próximos años nos hablan de un aumento importante que va desde 214 millones de adultos mayores en 1950, a más de 1.000 millones en 2005, es decir que la proporción aumentó del 8,5% al 13,7% lo que significaría que para el año 2025 una de cada 7 personas estará en la categoría de Adulto Mayor. Los adultos mayores son una población con poco ejercicio de actividad económica y un incremento sustancial de horas de ocio y con probabilidades de sufrir diversas situaciones sociales, como el abandono, la soledad, la incomprensión familiar, la falta de inserción social, etc.; lo que puede llevar al aumento de consumo de alcohol y drogas tanto lícitas como ilícitas, por lo que es un tema que tomará niveles de gran complejidad en esta nueva era y debe ser abordada con rapidez y conciencia en el futuro. En el presente trabajo se realizará una caracterización de los adultos mayores que ingresan a una sala de emergencia, se establece la correlación de la violencia, con consumo de alcohol y drogas. Escuela de Salud Pública y Ambiente. Fac. Cs. Médicas UNC 2014-03-20 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/6914 10.31052/1853.1180.v16.n1.6914 Revista de Salud Pública; Vol. 16 Núm. 1 (2012); 48-62 1852-9429 1853-1180 10.31052/1853.1180.v16.n1 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/6914/7986 Derechos de autor 1969 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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topic Adultos mayores
droga
violencia
elderly people
drugs
violence
spellingShingle Adultos mayores
droga
violencia
elderly people
drugs
violence
Castro Toschi, Rúben A.
Characterization of 60 Year-Old and Older Patients Entering Emergency Rooms due to Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Argentina, December 2003 and October 2005
topic_facet Adultos mayores
droga
violencia
elderly people
drugs
violence
author Castro Toschi, Rúben A.
author_facet Castro Toschi, Rúben A.
author_sort Castro Toschi, Rúben A.
title Characterization of 60 Year-Old and Older Patients Entering Emergency Rooms due to Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Argentina, December 2003 and October 2005
title_short Characterization of 60 Year-Old and Older Patients Entering Emergency Rooms due to Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Argentina, December 2003 and October 2005
title_full Characterization of 60 Year-Old and Older Patients Entering Emergency Rooms due to Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Argentina, December 2003 and October 2005
title_fullStr Characterization of 60 Year-Old and Older Patients Entering Emergency Rooms due to Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Argentina, December 2003 and October 2005
title_full_unstemmed Characterization of 60 Year-Old and Older Patients Entering Emergency Rooms due to Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Argentina, December 2003 and October 2005
title_sort characterization of 60 year-old and older patients entering emergency rooms due to drug and alcohol abuse. argentina, december 2003 and october 2005
description Demographic studies and projections made for the coming years inform about a significant increase ranging from 214 million of elderly people in 1950 to over 1 billion in 2005 i.e. the proportion increased from 8.5% to 13.7 % which would mean that by 2025 one out of every 7 people will be in the Senior category. Seniors are a population with little participation in economic activity and with a substantial increase of leisure time. Moreover, they are likely to suffer different social situations such as abandonment, loneliness, family misunderstanding, lack of social integration, etc. This may lead to an increased consumption of alcohol and licit or illicit drugs, making it an issue that will take new levels of complexity in this new era and must be addressed quickly and conscientiously in the future. In this paper we present a characterization of elderly people admitted to an emergency room, establishing the correlation between violence and alcohol or drug consumption.
publisher Escuela de Salud Pública y Ambiente. Fac. Cs. Médicas UNC
publishDate 2014
url https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/6914
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