Older Adults Increasingly Seeking Treatment for Gaming Addiction
By
johntfella
Tries hard. Doesn't quite make it out of the oven in one piece.
Summary
The article discusses how gaming addiction is affecting older adults, with Britain's National Centre for Gaming Disorders treating 67 people over age 40, including a 72-year-old woman addicted to smartphone games. This challenges the stereotype that screen addiction primarily affects teenagers and young people.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledIts specialists in video-game addiction have so far treated 67 people over the age of 40.
The oldest, with an obsession for games on her smartphone, was 72.
HUNDREDS OF TEENAGERS, sometimes strong-armed by their parents, have trooped through the doors of Britain's National Centre for Gaming Disorders since it opened in 2019.
Yet lately the publicly funded clinic has admitted a steady trickle of rather different patients.
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