Between 1997 and 2014, among adults ages 60+, prevalence of lifetime abstention was stable (i.e., no significant trend based on AAPC) among men and declined among women, on average, 1.3% per year (AAPC p=0.006) (Table 1, Figure 1). However, there were inflection points between those years representing in-between changes in the direction of trends. Among men, prevalence of lifetime abstention was stable between 1997 and 2000 followed by a decrease of, on average, 2.2% per year through 2014 (APC p=0.0008). Among women, prevalence was stable between 1997 and 1999 followed by a decrease of, on average, 2.1% per year through 2014 (APC p<0.0001).
