“…The same is used for the detection of alcohol abuse and dependence in the elderly of both sexes, characterizing, therefore, the objective of the study [12]. It is noticeable that men tend to consume alcoholic beverages in larger quantities and frequencies when compared to women, and thus expose themselves more to risk situations, which often can have devastating emotional, social, familiar and health consequences, which corroborates with a A study carried out in a city in the state of Minas Gerais, where there was also a higher prevalence of alcohol abuse in elderly male patients and that is, as the age increases, the time of use is increased, so, the elderly are those who present the highest average of time of alcohol consumption [13,14], this reality tends to favor the increase of deleterious effects on the health, especially emotional, of the elderly [2].…”