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Substance abuse rehabilitation facilities which cater to the specific and unique needs of seniors and older adults can 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 going to treatment and it provides the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who understand the unique challenges they encounter. In mixed age programs seniors and older adults can at times be less willing to contribute completely in group sessions with the younger age group who don't understand their age related and generational specific issues. Substance abuse rehab programs which provide a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can deliver a platform of mutual respect, understanding, and comfort to address the difficulties in recovery.
Rehabilitation professionals at drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers for seniors and older adults are prepared to deliver their unique expertise with older clients to resolve generational, age-related and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also considering any specific physical or mental impairments and challenges this demographic 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 therapists who are prepared to accommodate the needs of older clients by the way individual and group counseling sessions.
Seniors and older adults are disproportionately prone to the abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs, and as part of recovery many require medical intervention not just through safe detox 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 sustain a long and happy life.
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