Abstract
Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are frequent disorders in the elderly. The disorders often develop as a response to burdensome life events which have to be treated specifically. Old alcoholics often respond well to age-specific interventions, if co-existing depressive symptoms are also treated. Because of the non-specific nature of the initial symptoms, the majority of the elderly alcoholics remain unrecognised during the diagnostic process. This review, therefore, gives a synopsis of clinical clues to alcoholism and associated psychic complications in elderly patients. Psychic complications in persistent alcoholism include Wernicke-Korsakow's syndrome, symptom patterns of delusions and hallucinations and specific types of organic brain syndromes.
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