Older adults
7 studies in the past 365 days. Tags are assigned automatically from titles and abstracts; a study can carry several.
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Mapping risk of gambling disorder in older adults: a neural network approach
Background And Objectives: Gambling disorder (GD) in older adults remains insufficiently understood, despite growing concerns about gambling-related harm in older adulthood …
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Breaking the cycle: how loneliness substitution and game design alter gambling immersion in older adults
Loneliness and gambling among older adults are interlinked public health concerns. Gambling immersion may increase exposure to financial, emotional, and relational harm, yet few studies distinguish how social, emotional, and existential loneliness shape this process …
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Gambling disorder in late life: A systematic review of behavioral patterns, clinical correlates, and psychotherapeutic interventions
Background And Objectives: Gambling in older adults represents an emerging but still underrecognized mental health concern. Although gambling participation is increasingly observed in later life, the specific psychological, social, cognitive, and biological factors associated with gambling-related problems in older adults remain insufficiently characterized …
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In Case You Haven't Heard…
It's not only young men who face gambling addiction online. A report in the AARP Bulletin found that predatory gambling websites are going after older people, many of whom like to gamble recreationally at casinos. The COVID pandemic meant they couldn't go to casinos, and it didn't take long for them to find websites — or for the sites to find them …
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Cross-border gambling as late-life leisure: social practices, mobility, and moral tensions in a Thai–Cambodian borderland
Gambling among older adults is often interpreted through moral or legal lenses, yet its role as a socially embedded form of late-life leisure remains underexplored, particularly in borderland contexts characterized by high mobility and limited recreational alternatives …
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Effect of gambling odds framing on younger and older adults’ comprehension and perceived chances of winning
Abstract How the odds of winning a casino game are presented impacts whether individuals understand and how they perceive those odds …
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Sex and Age Differences and Psychosocial Determinants of Regular Gambling: Insights from a Community-Based Study
Gambling participation among women and older adults has increased, yet research on the psychosocial determinants of gambling in these groups remains limited …