Laut einer neuen Studie mit über 50-Jährigen zeigen Rentner mehr Anzeichen einer Depression als diejenigen, die noch arbeiten, und starker Alkoholkonsum kann ihre Symptome verschlimmern. Forscher sagen, dass es von entscheidender Bedeutung ist, dass Menschen im Ruhestand Unterstützung erhalten, um zu verhindern, dass sie zu starkem Alkoholkonsum verfallen, um sich an die Veränderungen anzupassen.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/retirement-could-lead-to-a-deterioration-in-mental-health-and-alcohol-can-worsen-this-issue
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13607863.2024.2423262
From the linked article:
Retirees show more signs of depression than those who are still working – and heavy drinking may make their symptoms worse, a new study tracking tens of thousands of over-50s in the U.S reveals.
Published in peer-reviewed journal Aging and Mental Health, findings, which monitored participants across a 14-year period, paint a complex picture.
Results highlight that binge drinking appears to increase symptoms of depression when compared to those who do not drink at all. However, those who drink in moderation appear to have fewer symptoms of depression than those who abstain completely.
Overall, the authors of the research say it is vital that people are given support when they retire to prevent them from turning to heavy alcohol use to help them adjust to the change.
Maybe if we didn’t make life miserable and have a culture that is nothing but consumption, maybe people wouldn’t immediately start drinking the minute they had the time to think about how much it sucks.
My own response has been to put off retirement, even though I’ll be 70 this year. However the MCI (particularly word blindness) is getting worse, so I may not be able to go on much longer. I’m from the generation where ‘man as provider’ has been the norm, and I’m not sure how easy it will be to break out of that mindset. Fortunately for me alcohol isn’t an issue – I’m teetotal – but depression certainly could be.
Many ppl look forward to retirement specifically because they want to drink every day. My father was like that, I’ve friends whose fathers were also like that.
And heavy drinking puts them at risk of vascular dementia
cue people spinning this as an argument for people to never retire and keep on working
No surprise if people spend 50 years with their sole purpose being to do what their superior tells them to do and to generate material value, with the implicit or explicit narrative being that’s their only value, and then are suddenly left to leech material value with no such purpose