Addiction rehabilitation centers 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 treatment can help with the initial stigma that seniors may feel when going to rehab and it provides the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who understand the unique difficulties they face. In younger age programs seniors and older adults can sometimes be less willing to engage completely in group sessions with the younger age group who are not familiar with their age related and generational unique issues. Drug and Alcohol treatment centers which provide a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can provide a connection of mutual understanding, respect, and support to work through the challenges to treatment.
Treatment staff at addiction rehabilitation facilities for seniors and older adults are there to deliver their unique expertise with older clients to resolve 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 treatment. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be presented with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type or treatment therapists who are experienced with the needs of older clients by the way individual and group counseling sessions.
Seniors and older adults are disproportionately apt to the abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol, and as part of recovery many require medical intervention not just through detoxification but to establish which medical drugs should be continued or eliminated as part of their recovery plan and their transition to a clean and sober lifestyle that will sustain a long and happy life.
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