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Substance abuse rehabilitation programs which cater to the specific and unique needs of seniors and older adults may be more beneficial for this client demographic. Senior and older adult centered recovery services can be helpful with the initial stigma that seniors may feel they may experience when entering treatment and it provides the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who understand the unique challenges they face. In mixed age facilities seniors and older adults can sometimes be less likely to engage completely in group sessions with the younger age group who don't understand their generational and age related unique issues. Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation facilities that provide a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can provide a connection of mutual respect, understanding, and solace to address the challenges to recovery.
Rehabilitation professionals at addiction rehabilitation centers for seniors and older adults are there to deliver their unique expertise with these clients to work on generational, age-related and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also taking into account any specific mental or physical impairments and challenges this group of client faces while in recovery. 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 professionals who are experienced with 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 intervention not just through detoxification but to figure out which medical drugs should be continued or eliminated as part of the treatment process and their transition to a healthy lifestyle that will sustain a long and happy life.
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