Evaluation and management of sleep disorders in the elderly

Abstract EN

The aim of this paper is to discuss family impairment as one of the complications of chronic alcoholism.

This study includes a random sample of sixty eight families (68) where the parent (male) is considered to be alcoholic according to W.H.O.

definition.

Chronic alcoholism is almost exclusively confined to men in Sudan.

It was clear from the results that the alcoholic, his wife, his children, his work and the society that contained him; all suffered the ill effects of Alcoholism.

These ill effects are elaborated and put in statistical terms.