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Drinking Habits of Older Canadians: A Comparison of the 1994 and 2004 National Surveys*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2012

Pascale-Audrey Moriconi ,
Louise Nadeau  and
Andrée Demers
Pascale-Audrey Moriconi*
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal
Louise Nadeau
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal
Andrée Demers
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal
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*†Correspondence and requests for offprints should be sent to / La correspondance et les demandes de tirés-à-part doivent être adressées à: Pascale-Audrey Moriconi, Ph.D. 3974 Notre-Dame Ouest, #150 Montréal, QC H4C 1R1 ([email protected])
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Résumé

Cette étude compare la consommation d’alcool des Canadiens âgés de 55 ans et plus entre les années 1990 et 2000 et vérifie si les différences persistent lorsque la composition sociodémographique des échantillons est prise en compte. Les analyses incluent des sous-échantillons de répondants âgés de 55 à 74 ans provenant des enquêtes CADS de 1994 (1 071 hommes/1 446 femmes) et GENACIS de 2004 (1 494 hommes/2 176 femmes). Des ANOVA univariées font ressortir des taux de buveurs et de consommation excessive significativement plus élevés en 2004, mais aucune différence dans les profils de consommation. Des régressions montrent que la composition sociodémographique n’annule pas les différences observées. Le contexte social/environnemental plus favorable à l’alcool en 2004 expliquerait potentiellement les taux de buveurs plus élevés. Davantage de recherche sera nécessaire afin de préciser les effets de l’âge, de la cohorte et de la période sur la consommation d’alcool des Canadiens âgés.

Keywords

vieillissementconsommation d’alcoolchangements contextuels de la périodecomposition sociodémographiquegenreCanadaagingalcohol consumptioncontextual/period changessocio-demographic compositiongenderCanada
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , December 2012 , pp. 379 - 393
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 2012 

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The Canadian data (GENACIS-Canada) reported in this article were supported by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Graham [PI] and Demers [Co-PI]). The first author received funding from the Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) and the Centre Dollard-Cormier – Institut universitaire sur les dépendances.

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