title: [When addiction is revealed in old age].
abstract: The representations we have of old age are sometimes far from reality. An addiction may be discovered by chance late on, delaying diagnosis and treatment. A desire to change can be encouraged through expression, listening and analysing current behaviour.
authors.affiliation: Service de psychologie médicale et de psychiatrie de liaison, Hôpital de la cavale blanche, Bd Tanguy Prigent, 29609 Brest cedex, France. Electronic address: veronique.griner-abraham@chu-brest.fr.
authors.forename: Véronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Griner-Abraham
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D005853:Geriatrics; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events
keywords: addiction; elderly person; loss; perte; plaisir; pleasure; souffrance; suffering; sujet âgé