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Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Santa Cruz, NM.

Substance abuse rehabilitation programs which provide services to the specific needs of seniors and older adults can be more beneficial for this particular group of people. Senior and older adult focused treatment can help with the initial stigma that these clients feel they may experience when entering treatment and it provides the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who understand the specific difficulties they face. In younger age programs seniors and older adults can at times be less likely to participate completely in group activities with younger clients who don't understand their generational and age related unique issues. Substance abuse rehabilitation facilities that offer a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can provide a platform of mutual understanding, respect, and support to handle the difficulties in treatment.

Treatment staff at substance abuse treatment facilities for seniors and older adults are prepared to offer their unique expertise with older clients to work on generational, age-related and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also considering 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 presented with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type or treatment therapists who are experienced with the 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 treatment many need medical intervention not just through detoxification but to determine which prescriptions should be continued or eliminated as part of their recovery plan and their transition to a healthy lifestyle that will prolong their life.

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