Seniors or Older Adults - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - North Fort Myers, FL.

Addiction rehabilitation centers which serve the unique needs of seniors and older adults can be more beneficial for this client demographic. Senior and older adult focused treatment can help with the initial stigma that these clients feel when going to treatment and it offers the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who empathize and understand the specific difficulties they encounter. In mixed age facilities seniors and older adults can sometimes be less willing to engage fully in group sessions with younger clients who are not familiar with their age related and generational specific issues. Addiction treatment centers that provide a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can deliver a connection of mutual understanding, respect, and comfort to handle the difficulties in recovery.

Rehabilitation staff at addiction treatment facilities for seniors and older adults are there to deliver their unique expertise with these 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 demographic of client faces while in recovery. Program curriculum for seniors and older adults may be delivered with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type in reading material or treatment counselors who are prepared to accommodate 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 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.

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