More Older People Being Admitted to Hospital for Alcohol-Related Reasons Amid Concerns Over Lockdown BoozingHouse
There were more than three-quarters of a million alcohol-related hospital admissions during the height of the COVID pandemic - with far more older people ending up in the hospital than their younger counterparts - figures suggest.
Data from NHS Digital shows that there were 773,523 alcohol-related admissions between April and December last year - with three-quarters of them (587,501) involving patients over the age of 50.
For the same period, alcohol-related admissions involving patients between 60 and 80 stood at over 300,000, compared to fewer than 100,000 admissions for patients aged 20 to 40.
The figures come just six months after experts warned that the number of people drinking "high risk" amounts of alcohol had doubled since before lockdown. [Learn More]