Seniors or Older Adults - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Woodburn, OR.

Addiction treatment programs 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 recovery services can be helpful with the initial stigma that seniors may feel when entering rehab and it offers the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who empathize and understand the specific challenges they face. In age neutral programs seniors and older adults can at times be less likely to engage fully in group sessions with younger clients who are not familiar with their age related and generational unique challenges. Drug and Alcohol rehab programs which provide a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can offer a platform of mutual respect, understanding, and support to handle the challenges to treatment.

Treatment staff at addiction rehab centers for seniors and older adults are there to offer 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 unique mental or physical impairments and challenges this subset of client faces while in treatment. 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 counselors who are experienced with such needs of older clients by the way individual and group counseling sessions.

Seniors and older adults are disproportionately apt to the abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol, and as part of recovery many require medical assistance not just through detoxification 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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