Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - North Hills, CA.

Drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities which serve the specific and unique needs of seniors and older adults may be more helpful for this particular group of people. Senior and older adult centered recovery services can be helpful with the initial stigma that seniors may feel when going to treatment and it provides the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who empathize and understand the unique challenges they face. In younger age programs seniors and older adults can sometimes be less willing to participate fully in group sessions with the younger age group who are not familiar with their generational and age related unique challenges. Addiction rehabilitation centers which provide a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can deliver a connection of mutual understanding, respect, and comfort to handle the challenges to recovery.

Treatment staff at addiction rehab centers for seniors and older adults are there 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 mental or physical health issues or challenges this subset 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 in reading material or treatment therapists who are experienced with the needs of older clients by the means of individual and group counseling sessions.

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

There are 1 Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers offering this service in North Hills, CA

• VA Greater Los Angeles Health System
  818-895-9480
  16111 Plummer Street
  North Hills, CA. 91343
  
  Treatment Services Offered:
  Substance Abuse Treatment Programs for Seniors or Older Adults
  
  Payment Forms Accepted:
  No Payment Accepted
  

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