A survey among residents of three retirement communities revealed that regular drinking was more common in these communities than in the general population of senior citizens. Drinking was associated with social activity rather than with isolation or stresses of aging. Argued is that drinking is an integral part of the leisure sub-culture in these communities, and that social and solitary drinking may be fostered by the social environment.
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Alexander et al. (1988) studied this question.