Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Ashland, ME.

Substance abuse treatment centers which provide services to the specific and unique needs of seniors and older adults may be more beneficial for this particular group of people. Senior and older adult focused recovery can be helpful with the initial stigma that these clients feel they may experience when going to treatment and it offers support from others in the same stage of life who understand the specific challenges they face. In mixed age programs seniors and older adults can sometimes be less likely to participate fully in group activities with younger clients who don't understand their generational and age related unique challenges. Drug and Alcohol rehab programs that provide a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can deliver a connection of mutual understanding, respect, and solace to address the difficulties in recovery.

Rehabilitation professionals at drug and alcohol treatment centers for seniors and older adults are there to offer their unique expertise with older clients to resolve age-related, generational, and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also taking into account any specific physical or mental health issues or challenges this subset of client faces while in treatment. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be presented with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type or treatment therapists who are experienced with such 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 treatment many need medical assistance not just through detoxification but to establish which prescriptions should be eliminated or continued as part of the treatment process and their transition to a clean and sober lifestyle that will prolong their life.

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