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

Addiction rehab centers which serve the specific needs of seniors and older adults may be more beneficial for this client demographic. Senior and older adult focused treatment can be helpful with the initial stigma that seniors may feel when entering treatment and it offers the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who understand the specific challenges they encounter. In mixed age facilities seniors and older adults can at times be less likely to participate completely in group activities with the younger age group who don't understand their age related and generational unique issues. Drug and Alcohol treatment 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 recovery.

Rehabilitation staff at addiction rehab facilities for seniors and older adults are there 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 subset 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 in reading material or treatment professionals who are prepared to accommodate such 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 recovery 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 sustain a long and happy life.

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