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Research has shown that health care and social service practitioners often lack specific information about the use and abuse of alcohol by older adults and have negative attitudes about working with older adults with alcohol problems. This article reviews the literature on alcohol and older adults and describes a program that was designed to address the need for basic, brief training of practitioners about alcohol problems and the elderly. The training program, intended to improve practitioners' attitudes, knowledge and competencies in this area, was carried out in ten workshops in Canada. Evaluation procedures indicated that the training program was effective in improving practitioners' attitudes and knowledge about older adults with drinking problems, and that information from the workshop was used in subsequent work with older adults with alcohol problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Key Message: QTL mapping identified key genomic regions associated with adult-plant resistance to tan spot, which are effective even in the presence of the sensitivity gene Tsn1, thus serving as a new genetic solution to develop disease-resistant wheat cultivars. Improving resistance to tan spot (Pyrenophora tritici-repentis; Ptr) in wheat by eliminating race-specific susceptibility genes is a common breeding approach worldwide. The potential to exploit variation in quantitative forms of resistance, such as adult-plant resistance (APR), offers an alternative approach that could lead to broad-spectrum protection. We previously identified wheat landraces in the Vavilov diversity panel that exhibited high levels of APR despite carrying the sensitivity gene Tsn1. In this study, we characterised the genetic control of APR by developing a recombinant inbred line population fixed for Tsn1, but segregating for the APR trait. Linkage mapping using DArTseq markers and disease response phenotypes identified a QTL associated with APR to Ptr race 1 (producing Ptr ToxA- and Ptr ToxC) on chromosome 2B (Qts.313-2B), which was consistently detected in multiple adult-plant experiments. Additional loci were also detected on chromosomes 2A, 3D, 5A, 5D, 6A, 6B and 7A at the seedling stage, and on chromosomes 1A and 5B at the adult stage. We demonstrate that Qts.313-2B can be combined with other adult-plant QTL (i.e. Qts.313-1A and Qts.313-5B) to strengthen resistance levels. The APR QTL reported in this study provide a new genetic solution to tan spot in Australia and could be deployed in wheat cultivars, even in the presence of Tsn1, to decrease production losses and reduce the application of fungicides., (© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)