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Monday, November 7, 1C33
Alcoholic elderly topic of seminar
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The assumption that alcoholics dent live long
enough to reach eld ege b not necessarily true, said
Helen Eoosalb, director cf the Nebraska Depart
ment of Agbtg.
Studies show that 15 percent cf people over C5
ere alcoholics, Eoosalb said, which means that cf
the 03,000 ptosis C3 cr elder Ln Nebraska, 0,000
cf them nicy be alcoholics.
Boossib made her comments Friday In a lun
cheon address to CO participants tit a seminar cn
alcoholism and drus dependency among the elderly.
The seminar was conducted at the Nebraska Center
for Continuing Education, 33rd and Holdrege
streets.
Boosalis said the majority cf Nebraska's elderly
are healthy, vital and active, but the situation can
change rapidly. The elderly have more health and
financial problems, she said, and they abo expe
rience a great deal of loneliness. These factors lead
some older people to seek relief and escape from
their problems by drinking, she said.
One major problem with drinking among the '
elderly is the effect is can have when combined with
medications, said Dr. David L Songster, adjunct
assistant professor cf clinical pharmacy at the NU
Medical Center. He said alcohol can have one of two
major ejects on medicine. First, large amounts of
alcohol can decrease the "metabolic clearance rate" ,
for some drugs, which means that the medication
stays in the body longer because enzymes that
would ordinarily break dorm the drug are tlowcd.
In a your person, cne-half of the drug will be
gone from the syeiem Li 0 hours. Lowe ver, -rg2
ter said, In an elderly person, the came drug may
take ICO hours to leave the body. This can cause
medical prcblemj for the elderly, he sell
Secondly, in some elderly alcoholics, the intake cf
alcohol can abo stimulate the production cf the
enzymes, and speed up the elimination cf drugs
from the body, Sony ter said.
He said a combination cf anti-arthritic drugi and
alcohol may cause ulcers, pcsclbly causing the
patients to became chronic "bleeders".
The problem cf alcoholism among the elderly b
often ignored because people dent went to leek at
another problem aSIictmg the elderly, said Seadra
M. Schiff, an outreach therapbt with El-County
Community Hospital in Warren, llieh.
Schiff, who received her certificate and master's
degrees in social work from Wayne State University
in Detroit, Mich., said alcoholism among the elderly
can be separated into two types: early and lata
onset.
The early-onset alcoholic is the person who has
been drinking for most cf his or her life. Schiff said
this person has tremendous strength or else he or
she would not have survived the years cf alcoholism.
The late-reactive onset alcoholic drinla bee
of problems in later life. Medical, financial and social
problems can lead people to find escape in drinking,
Schiff said. .
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Warner . . .
tkrhocl has been gxd
to me, but school juet
cant teach you all you
need to know he said. "I
thought things were very
structured, juat get the
ob dons right Cut yea
ave to learn to ceil v..i
people . . . noraattarhsr
iWff fmWw vi I t rtiT
jou are, you arcnt geing
to the job donev without
the help of the people
you work with."
After the Nielsen job,
Warner worked for two
ment of Administrative
Services, where he met
his wife, the former Joait
Sendgraff of Fremont.
Theyve been married for
'three years, and have a
five-week-old son named'
DrCW..-' '' .;: ' .. ;
Funds . . .
cf hb gsals is to work
with local banks, loan
I companies and -the U2L
Esh a b.7-ir.tcrcet, ehcrt-
terra emergency loan for
international students. , ;
He said this type of
loan is needed because it
is diTiicult for an interna
tional student to get an .
'American co-signer in
order to be eligible for a
"regular loan' '
The new president said
he also will Work to
arrange better housing
for international stu
. dents during holidays. Al
though rooms in Inter
national House in Nei
.hardt Residence Center .
axe available, students
need the permbeien cf
current reeiients-to stcy
in them during breaks.
This
a pre:
dents who "dont want a
stranger staying in thejr
room," he seid.
""Other ISO officers"
elected Fridey were Tcny
Ogienta cf li'igeria, rice
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Charmsga cf IIab;rb,
Khayyat of Jordan,
XUI representative. -
Off Tfee Wire
Nr-Honsl and international news
from tils Rcutcr News Report
Reb sis capture
Arafat stronghold
TEIFOU, Lebanon Cyrh;vt;e!;ed Pales
tinian rebeb squeezed FLO leader Ytcccr Ara
fat into a tight corner in northern Lebanon
Sundey by capturing one cf hb tvro remaining
strongholds alter f ear dr3 cf blaody fighting.
Kebeb forces advanced to with 1.5 miles of
Arafat's base at the Eadda.Ti refugee camp as
loyalbts put up what may be the guerrila
chiefs last fight in Lebanon.
Arafat early had conceded the lees cf the
Nahr Al-Eared refugee camp, 10 miles north cf
Eaddawi, and said he had ordered hb men to
withdraw in order to spare Chilian blood. He
. vowed to fight on at Bad dawa because, he said,
. we have no alternative to' self-defense."
Reports from Tripoli, CO miles north cf Bei
rut, indicated that Arafat's men stand little
chance against the otrwhelm!ng firepower of
the rebeb, who are supported by Syrian troops
controlling the area.
Search for black bon ends
,
.TOIIYO US. ships searchin g in the Sea of
Japan far the wreckage cf a Sauth Korean
airliner shot down by the Soviet Union Sept 1
left the area Sunday, Japanese coast guard
cmeiab said. The move fallowed a Pentagon
announcement Saturday that the United
States was calling cn its search in the area
far the wrcckege frcm Ilcrcan Airlines flight
C37. AH 2CD people aboard the airliner were
.. .
l evice r.cr zr.y c he? wreckage had
been found frcni the Eoeing 747 jet. The United
States had hoped to find the recording device
for clues on the downing of the airliner after it
strayed into Soviet air space. , v
Eatur.
records g
From warship.; to jail
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada Bernard Coard
and Gen. Hudson Austin, instigators of the
bloody coup against Prime Minister Maurice
, Ebhop three weeks ago, were transferred from
a U.S. warship to the main jail in Grenada
Sunday. The men and four others, including
Coord's wife, Fhyllb, were, turned over to the
custody of Caribbean, security force on the
bland. , , -; "
U. forces had 'arrested the Co'ards and
Austin in' the early stages cf the UJS.-led inva
sion, which hegan Oct. 25.; ,-.
: Americans continued to draw strong sup
port from residents cf the blend. Prominent
Grenadians said Sunday that they stO fear the
presence cf a shadowy "Tth column" and that
they want American forces to remain cn the
bland.
In Washington, US. cfHcials said they still
hope to remove American military forces from
Grenada cs coon as peeeHie, decp'ee requests
from Grenada's govarr.cr-ger.eral that some
US. troops remain until elections -are held.
Defense Secretary Caerar Wt:r;berer, Inter
viewed cn ABC-TVs i Lb Week V,.th David
Erbldey," said the tiding cf the withdrawal
would depend cn hcf.7 cblr ear.tiens cn
Grenada returned to ..err::! and Lew rrridlY
forces from ether CzfZ'zzz itzZzi could be
d to take over a policing rcle.
7 tov ' toward " Cuba
WASHINGTON - A dbetbd C-eviet nuclear
submarfcis, under tow by a Soviet crs tug
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southward in the dircetien cfCeil-a, t;;e- Pen-
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spatted the Vlctcr-3 cbes attr.eke'A dee' r.ed
to hurl and de:trey ether ;! cn theVr
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cf Charleeten, S.C. A Cevbt fcg fren II na
reached the sub SaturCr.y. VJX cZeieb have
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