Seniors or Older Adults - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Mears, VA.

Addiction rehabilitation centers which serve the specific needs of seniors and older adults may be more helpful for this client demographic. Senior and older adult centered treatment can be helpful with the initial stigma that these clients feel when entering treatment and it offers support from others in the same stage of life who understand the unique challenges they face. In younger age programs seniors and older adults can at times be less willing to engage fully in group activities with the younger age group who are not familiar with their age related and generational unique challenges. Substance abuse rehabilitation centers which provide a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can offer a platform of mutual understanding, respect, and support to work through the challenges to rehab.

Rehabilitation professionals at addiction treatment centers for seniors and older adults are there to deliver their unique expertise with these clients to resolve 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 rehab. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be delivered with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type or treatment therapists 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 alcohol and prescription drugs, and as part of recovery many need medical intervention not just through detoxification but to determine which medical drugs 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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