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

Substance abuse treatment programs which provide services to the specific and unique needs of seniors and older adults can be more helpful for this client demographic. Senior and older adult focused treatment can be helpful with the initial stigma that seniors may feel when going to treatment and it offers support from others in the same stage of life who understand the unique challenges they face. In age neutral facilities seniors and older adults can at times be less willing to participate fully in group activities with younger clients who are not familiar with their generational and age related specific challenges. Drug and Alcohol rehab programs which offer a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can provide a connection of mutual respect, understanding, and solace to address the challenges to treatment.

Treatment professionals at drug and alcohol treatment programs for seniors and older adults are there to deliver their unique expertise with older clients to resolve age-related, generational, and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also taking into account any unique mental or physical impairments and challenges this group of client faces while in recovery. Program curriculum for seniors and older adults may be delivered with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type in reading material or treatment professionals 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 prescription drugs and alcohol, and as part of recovery many need medical intervention not just through detoxification but to figure out which prescriptions should be continued or eliminated as part of the treatment process and their transition to a clean and sober lifestyle that will prolong their life.

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