Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - North Bridgton, ME.

Addiction rehab facilities which serve the specific and unique needs of seniors and older adults can be more helpful 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 entering treatment and it offers the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who empathize and understand the unique challenges they encounter. In younger age programs seniors and older adults can sometimes be less willing to engage completely in group activities with younger clients who are not familiar with their age related and generational unique challenges. Substance abuse rehab centers which offer a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can offer a connection of mutual respect, understanding, and support to address the difficulties in rehab.

Rehabilitation professionals at substance abuse treatment programs for seniors and older adults are there to offer their unique expertise with these clients to resolve generational, age-related and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also considering any unique mental or physical health issues or challenges this demographic 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 individual and group counseling sessions.

Seniors and older adults are disproportionately apt to the abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol, and as part of recovery many require medical assistance not just through safe detox but to figure out which prescriptions should be eliminated or continued as part of their recovery plan and their transition to a healthy lifestyle that will prolong their life.

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