CATEGORY: Applying CRAFT
This section contains some specific recommendations for applying CRAFT in particular circumstances (an older Loved One, a Loved One who wants to try m…
Member Topics: elderly loved one
How to Talk to An Older Person Who is Abusing Alcohol or Medication
If your parents or neighbors were ill or needed help, you’d do everything you could to help, wouldn’t you? But when that same older person…
How to Address Substance Abuse in an Elderly Loved One
Your father is elderly and does little more than sleep and drink. This is indeed dangerous. The ability to apply CRAFT to your situation depends on th…
Alchohol Abuse Among the Elderly
AFTER 50 years of heavy drinking, a 72-year-old woman from Fairfield County was forced to confront her alcoholism when her son threatened to move out …