Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Yreka, CA.

Drug and alcohol treatment programs which cater to the unique needs of seniors and older adults can be more helpful for this client demographic. Senior and older adult focused recovery services can be helpful with the initial stigma that these clients feel they may experience when entering rehab and it offers support from others in the same stage of life who understand the unique difficulties they encounter. In mixed age programs seniors and older adults can sometimes be less likely to contribute completely in group sessions with younger clients who don't understand their generational and age related specific issues. Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation facilities that offer a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can offer a platform of mutual respect, understanding, and comfort to work through the challenges to treatment.

Treatment staff at addiction treatment programs for seniors and older adults are prepared to deliver their unique expertise with older clients to work on age-related, generational, and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also taking into account any specific mental or physical impairments and challenges this subset of client faces while in recovery. 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 counselors who are experienced with such needs of older clients by the way group and individual counseling sessions.

Seniors and older adults are disproportionately prone to the abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol, and as part of treatment many need medical intervention not just through detoxification but to establish which prescriptions should be eliminated or continued as part of their recovery plan and their transition to a clean and sober lifestyle that will prolong their life.

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