Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Crescent City, CA.

Addiction rehabilitation facilities which provide services to the specific and unique needs of seniors and older adults may be more helpful for this client demographic. Senior and older adult focused recovery services can help with the initial stigma that seniors may feel when entering treatment and it offers the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who understand the specific challenges they encounter. In mixed age programs seniors and older adults can sometimes be less likely to engage fully in group activities with the younger age group who don't understand their age related and generational specific challenges. Drug and Alcohol treatment centers which offer a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can offer a platform of mutual respect, understanding, and support to work through the challenges to recovery.

Treatment staff at substance abuse treatment centers for seniors and older adults are there to offer 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 treatment. Program curriculum for seniors and older adults may be presented with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type in reading material or treatment counselors who are prepared to accommodate the needs of older clients by the means of group and individual counseling sessions.

Seniors and older adults are disproportionately apt to the abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol, and as part of treatment many require medical assistance not just through safe detox but to establish which prescriptions should be continued or eliminated as part of the treatment process and their transition to a healthy lifestyle that will prolong their life.

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