Senior Citizen's Gambling Addiction On The Rise

Over the past few months there has been a significant increase in the number of seniors who have taken up gambling as a new form of entertainment. Through this exposure a larger percentage then expected have become addicted to gambling.

The local gambling establishments are to blame for the sudden rise in seniors with a compulsive gambling addiction.

The gambling establishments have created various incentive programs and innovative advertising gimmicks to lure them into a dark world. The end result is a senior with a self destructive behavior pattern and low self esteem.

In the last week alone I have received numerous emails from seniors who lost all their financial resources due to their compulsive gambling addiction. They do not know how this happened to them and now are ashamed of their behavior. A majority of these seniors still have not told their children and or friends about their problem gambling.

One of the emails expressed concern that the gambling establishments were victimizing retired individuals with the following incentives:

- Tired of staying at home with nothing to do, come down and visit us we will make you feel at home.

- Free live entertainment awaits you.

- Buffets and exotic restaurants

- Make new friends

- Not only will we pay for the transportation with coupon vouchers, we will also throw in free lunch at our buffet. You are getting a full day of entertainment and we will feed you too.

- You can earn points while you play which you can spend at one of our many unique gift shops.

- Bring the enclosed encrypted coded card for you to scan to see if you are the grand prize winner. Remember there are other prizes you can win too with this coded card. All you need to do is swipe it. The coded card is good for the month of May.

- Earn enough points and you can stay for free in one of our luxury VIP hotel rooms.

- ATM machines, cash advances and line of credits are available

- If you need anything while you are visiting us, just ask for one of our many hosts. We have hosts available twenty four hours a day, seven days a week to make your visit a most enjoyable one.

We are living in a new world we're gambling is playing a major role. It's time for people to take control and educate themselves.

There are alternative programs available for senior citizens. Once you know you or someone you know has a problem with gambling it's imperative to get help before they lose all their assets and their sanity.

Mr. Howard Keith has an extensive background in dealing with compulsive gamblers, relatives and friends of gamblers and teenage gamblers. Mr. Keith believes there are many alternatives to aid in the recovery of a gambling addiction verses a twelve step program. A large percentage of his emails were from compulsive gamblers looking for an alternative to Gamblers Anonymous and twelve step programs. Gamblers Anonymous also helps a significant number of people each year but there is a large percentage that they are unable to reach.

For more information on gambling addiction and stop gambling you can check out

I Stopped Gambling So Can You http://www.istoppedgambling.com/ and the site

Senior Citizen Gambling Addiction website [http://www.Senior-Citizen-Gambling-Addiction.org/].

Senior Gambling - Why Senior Citizens Love Gambling More Than Anything Else!

In the US gambling has become a prevalent activity. Surveys have been showing a regular increase in the number of people who are getting hooked on to gambling every year.

There are analysts who claim that according to their findings these gamblers spend more money on gambling than on any other sort of items which include video games, movie tickets, theme parks, etc. or any of these put together.

Since this time there have been a number of reports on how gambling has been penetrating into the society. There are still many studies that are going on which still do not have evidence and haven?t yet got their conclusions on senior gambling.

This sure is a problem and not a simple one. Among about 7000 seniors, a survey shows that bingo is a game that most of them go in for to have fun and get entertained at the same time.

The number of senior people has also been increasing over the years. A few years back it was only about a twenty percent and now it has been raised to about fifty percent. This only proves to show that gambling is also increases with the seniors and not only the young people of the world.

Due to the reason that many of the seniors have already got their 'nest eggs' you find that a huge number of them have enough money to gamble and do not find it difficult financially.

For those who want to know why senior gambling is gaining popularity today can read below a few facts which will give you an idea on it.

1. Seniors do not have much to do in their old age and gambling is one activity which is gratifying as well as lucrative at the same time.

2. Deteriorating opportunities and lack of attention for their social activities have also been a reason for the increase in number of senior gamblers. They find that gambling helps them in forgetting the hard realities that they are facing in life at least for a little while.

3. One other reason why seniors tend to gamble more than before is that they get their retirement's funds or nest eggs and hence have enough money to waste on gambling. The more the money in their hands, more are the chances of them being able to gamble.

4. Most of the seniors do not gamble for more money. They just gamble to have fun and get some satisfaction.

5. There are also more privileges that the senior gamblers can make use of and hence it is more convenient for them to gamble and also enjoy the pleasure.

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