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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have success in getting treatment for alcoholism in older people? My 75 year old dad has been a functioning alcoholic for years (though I only recently learned of it - if he was abusing alcohol when we were kids we didn’t know it). He now has several complicated medical issues all of which seem like they could be caused by the alcoholism (or certainly are made worse). He’s seeing specialist after specialist but he and my stepmom are not being honest with the doctors about the fact that he’s drinking 1.5-2 liters of wine most days. At least he’s not driving. My stepmom is 100% enabling this and buying the wine (“if I don’t buy it, he’ll drive and get it” or says he’s even more withdrawn and depressed if he’s not drinking.) He is absolutely unwilling to address the drinking or depression. [b]I guess we just sit by and watch him drink himself to death?[/b] Any success stories out there of older people who have turned it around?[/quote]

100% yes, you do.

Bless your heart if you think you’re going to get him to stop.

You will lose your own health trying to “save” him, and then it won’t even work.

BTDT. [/quote]

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