Seniors or Older Adults - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Poultney, VT.

Drug and alcohol treatment programs which serve the specific needs of seniors and older adults may be more helpful for this particular group of people. Senior and older adult focused treatment can help with the initial stigma that these clients feel when going to treatment and it offers support from others in the same stage of life who empathize and understand the specific difficulties they face. In younger age facilities seniors and older adults can at times be less willing to contribute fully in group sessions with younger clients who are not familiar with their age related and generational specific issues. Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation facilities which offer 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 treatment.

Treatment staff at drug and alcohol rehabilitation 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 unique physical or mental impairments and challenges this demographic of client faces while in treatment. 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 prepared to accommodate 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 treatment many require medical intervention not just through detoxification but to establish which prescriptions should be eliminated or continued as part of the treatment process and their transition to a healthy lifestyle that will sustain a long and happy life.

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