Seniors or Older Adults - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Stillwater, MN.

Addiction rehabilitation programs which provide services to the unique needs of seniors and older adults can be more beneficial for this client demographic. Senior and older adult focused recovery services can help with the initial stigma that seniors may feel they may experience when going to rehab and it provides support from others in the same stage of life who empathize and understand the specific difficulties they encounter. In mixed age facilities seniors and older adults can at times be less willing to engage completely in group sessions with the younger age group who don't understand their age related and generational specific challenges. Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation facilities that offer a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can offer a platform of mutual understanding, respect, and comfort to address the challenges to recovery.

Treatment staff at substance abuse treatment facilities for seniors and older adults are prepared to offer their unique expertise with these clients to resolve generational, age-related and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also taking into account any specific physical or mental impairments and challenges this group of client faces while in treatment. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be presented with audio or verbal impairments in mind, such as larger type in reading material or treatment counselors who are experienced with the needs of older clients by the means of 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 intervention 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 sustain a long and happy life.

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