Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Norwood, NC.

Addiction rehabilitation centers which serve the unique needs of seniors and older adults may be more helpful for this particular group of people. Senior and older adult focused recovery can be helpful with the initial stigma that these clients feel when going to treatment and it provides support from others in the same stage of life who understand the specific difficulties they encounter. In age neutral facilities seniors and older adults can at times be less likely to engage completely in group sessions with younger clients who don't understand their age related and generational unique challenges. Substance abuse rehabilitation facilities that offer a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can deliver a platform of mutual understanding, respect, and support to address the difficulties in treatment.

Treatment professionals at substance abuse rehabilitation programs for seniors and older adults are there to deliver their unique expertise with older clients to work on generational, age-related and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also considering any unique mental or physical health issues or challenges this subset of client faces while in rehab. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be delivered with audio or verbal 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 group and individual counseling sessions.

Seniors and older adults are disproportionately prone to the abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol, and as part of treatment many need medical intervention not just through detoxification but to determine which prescriptions should be eliminated or continued as part of the treatment process and their transition to a healthy lifestyle that will prolong their life.

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