Are your grandparents getting tipsy at the holiday party?

December 19, 2018

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“As baby boomers have begun trickling into later life, the stereotype of Grandma sipping hot cocoa by the fire has slowly been replaced with Grandma sipping a glass of wine with her friends and family,” write ISL Faculty Affiliate Dawn Carr and Amy Burdette, both of FSU’s Department of Sociology.

“Is this new trend something we should be concerned about?” they ask in their analysis of the complicated intersection of alcohol consumption, socializing and health in The Conversation: Are your grandparents getting tipsy at the holiday party?