Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Wheeler, OR.

Addiction treatment programs which provide services to the unique needs of seniors and older adults may be more beneficial for this client demographic. Senior and older adult centered recovery services can help with the initial stigma that these clients feel when going to treatment and it offers the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who empathize and understand the unique difficulties they face. In younger age programs seniors and older adults can at times be less willing to contribute fully in group activities with younger clients who don't understand their generational and age related specific challenges. Addiction treatment programs that offer a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can offer a platform of mutual respect, understanding, and solace to handle the difficulties in treatment.

Treatment staff at substance abuse rehabilitation programs for seniors and older adults are prepared to offer their unique expertise with older clients to resolve generational, age-related and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also considering any unique physical or mental impairments and challenges this subset of client faces while in treatment. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be produced with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type in reading material or treatment counselors who are prepared to accommodate such needs of older clients by the way individual and group counseling sessions.

Seniors and older adults are disproportionately prone to the abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol, and as part of recovery many require medical assistance not just through safe detox but to determine which prescriptions should be continued or eliminated as part of the treatment process and their transition to a clean and sober lifestyle that will sustain a long and happy life.

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