Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Cape Elizabeth, ME.

Addiction treatment centers which serve the specific and unique needs of seniors and older adults may be more helpful for this particular group of people. Senior and older adult focused recovery can help with the initial stigma that these clients feel when entering treatment and it provides the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who understand the unique challenges they encounter. In younger age facilities seniors and older adults can sometimes be less willing to participate fully in group activities with the younger age group who don't understand their age related and generational unique issues. Addiction treatment centers that offer a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can provide a connection of mutual understanding, respect, and comfort to address the difficulties in treatment.

Treatment staff at substance abuse rehab facilities for seniors and older adults are prepared to offer their unique expertise with these clients to work on 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 recovery. Program curriculum for seniors and older adults may be presented with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type or treatment therapists who are prepared to accommodate such needs of older clients by the means of group and individual 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 determine which prescriptions should be eliminated or continued 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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