Seniors or Older Adults - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Woodstock, CT.

Substance abuse treatment facilities which provide services to the unique needs of seniors and older adults can be more beneficial for this client demographic. Senior and older adult centered recovery can help with the initial stigma that these clients feel when entering treatment and it offers support from others in the same stage of life who empathize and understand the unique challenges they face. In younger age facilities seniors and older adults can sometimes be less likely to participate completely in group activities with younger clients who don't understand their generational and age related unique challenges. Addiction rehabilitation programs which provide a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can offer a platform of mutual understanding, respect, and solace to handle the difficulties in recovery.

Treatment staff at drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs for seniors and older adults are there to offer their unique expertise with these clients to resolve generational, age-related and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also taking into account any unique mental or physical impairments and challenges this group of client faces while in treatment. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be produced with audio or verbal 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 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 intervention not just through safe detox but to determine 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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