Too much is always too much – Ageing and Alcohol Development Project
 Here is a poster about the project of Age Institute Kuntokallio. Click the picture to get it bigger.  The english poster of the whole project.
“Too much is always too much – Ageing and Alcohol Development Project” answers to the growing need of help elderly people with their drinking problems. The use of alcohol among aged people seems to increase in that scale that it is inevitable to improve knowledge and skills of personnel who work with elderly people so that they could help, if necessary, aged person who has problems with alcohol. Likewise it is obvious that the providers of substance abuse services also need more knowledge about ageing and how to interact with an aged client.
The aims of the project
The aims of this project are to attract public attention to realize that elderly people also have drinking problems. Saying it aloud might facilitate someone to seek for help. Project informs elderly people for example about unexpected synergisms between medication, diseases, ageing and alcohol. The project sorts out the amount of alcohol abusers among aged people and more importantly scrutinize the skills of workers, who work with the aged people, how to interact with alcohol abusers.
During the project
- training events and seminars will be organized for both the professionals from the services of the aged people and the services of the substance abusers
- information events and discussion groups of preventive work will be organized especially in piloting areas
- The project produces special material about alcohol abuse for the experienced workers and also for the preventing work among elderly people.
- The project develops new treatments and rehabilitations especially for aged alcohol abusers.
The duration of the project is four years (2005-2008); it is coordinated by the Finnish Blue Ribbon and funded by Finland’s Slot Machine Association (RAY). The project has two piloting areas. One area is situated in east of Finland around Pieksämäki and Savonlinna, and the other around Helsinki, the capitol of Finland.
The organizations and associations which take part in the project:
The Finnish Blue Ribbon
Helsinki Deaconess Institute
Age Institute Kuntokallio Foundation
Church Resources Agency
Blue Ribbon Foundation
Finnish Psychogeriatric association
The Pensioners
Finnish Pensioners Federation
The Finnish Association of Shelters for the Aged
The Central Union for the Welfare of the Aged
The association for Old Age and Neighbour Service
Association of care giving Relatives and Friends
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