Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Luna Pier, MI.

Drug and alcohol treatment facilities which provide services to the unique needs of seniors and older adults may be more beneficial for this client demographic. Senior and older adult centered treatment can be helpful with the initial stigma that these clients feel they may experience when entering rehab and it provides the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who empathize and understand the specific challenges they face. In mixed age programs seniors and older adults can at times be less willing to participate completely in group activities with younger clients who are not familiar with their age related and generational specific issues. Substance abuse rehab programs that offer a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can offer a connection of mutual respect, understanding, and comfort to work through the difficulties in rehab.

Rehabilitation staff at substance abuse rehab centers 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 considering any unique mental or physical impairments and challenges this subset 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 or treatment counselors who are prepared to accommodate such needs of older clients by the way individual and group counseling sessions.

Seniors and older adults are disproportionately apt to the abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs, and as part of treatment many require medical intervention not just through safe detox but to determine which medical drugs 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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