Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Streamwood, IL.

Addiction treatment centers which serve the unique needs of seniors and older adults may be more beneficial for this client demographic. Senior and older adult centered recovery services can be helpful with the initial stigma that seniors may feel they may experience 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 facilities seniors and older adults can sometimes be less likely to participate fully in group activities with younger clients who are not familiar with their generational and age related specific challenges. Addiction treatment facilities that offer a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can offer a platform of mutual understanding, respect, and support to address the difficulties in recovery.

Rehabilitation staff at addiction rehab programs 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 mental or physical health issues or challenges this demographic of client faces while in treatment. Program curriculum for seniors and older adults may be produced with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type in reading material or treatment professionals who are prepared to accommodate the needs of older clients by the means of group and individual counseling sessions.

Seniors and older adults are disproportionately apt to the abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs, and as part of treatment many need medical intervention not just through safe detox but to determine which prescriptions 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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