Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Elephant Butte, NM.

Addiction treatment facilities which serve the unique needs of seniors and older adults can be more beneficial for this client demographic. Senior and older adult centered recovery services can be helpful with the initial stigma that these clients feel when entering treatment and it provides support from others in the same stage of life who understand the unique challenges they encounter. In mixed age facilities seniors and older adults can sometimes be less willing to contribute completely in group sessions with the younger age group who are not familiar with their age related and generational specific issues. Addiction rehabilitation centers that provide a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can provide a platform of mutual understanding, respect, and support to work through the challenges to recovery.

Treatment professionals at drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities for seniors and older adults are prepared to deliver their unique expertise with older clients to work on age-related, generational, 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 recovery. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be produced with audio or verbal impairments in mind, such as larger type in reading material or treatment counselors 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 require medical intervention not just through safe detox but to establish which prescriptions should be continued or eliminated as part of the treatment process and their transition to a healthy lifestyle that will prolong their life.

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