Few factors be it young or old, make a person susceptible to gambling addiction. Unemployment, mental health issues and substance abuse are the common ones. And it is the extremes of age that are again the stages when these factors come in the most.

That is why it seems as thought he young are more vulnerable, but the old are too - they were not exposed to gambling because of their lack of technical know how, but this is improving recently and they are also frequent gamblers.

Thus awareness about gambling addiction and a control over habits is important to any gambler.