Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Rowe, MA.

Substance abuse rehab centers which cater to the unique needs of seniors and older adults may 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 going to treatment and it provides the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who understand the specific challenges they face. In mixed age facilities seniors and older adults can at times be less willing to engage fully in group sessions with younger clients who are not familiar with their generational and age related specific issues. Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation centers which offer a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can provide a connection of mutual understanding, respect, and comfort to work through the difficulties in treatment.

Treatment staff at substance abuse rehabilitation facilities 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 unique physical or mental impairments and challenges this group of client faces while in recovery. Program materials 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 experienced with the 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 need medical intervention not just through detoxification but to determine which prescriptions should be eliminated or continued as part of their recovery plan and their transition to a healthy lifestyle that will sustain a long and happy life.

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