Seniors or Older Adults - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Nichols, WI.

Substance abuse rehabilitation programs which provide services to the specific needs of seniors and older adults may be more beneficial for this client demographic. Senior and older adult focused recovery can be helpful with the initial stigma that seniors may feel when entering rehab and it offers support from others in the same stage of life who empathize and understand the specific challenges they encounter. In younger age programs seniors and older adults can at times be less willing to engage fully in group sessions with younger clients who are not familiar with their age related and generational specific issues. Substance abuse rehab programs that 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.

Treatment staff at addiction rehabilitation programs for seniors and older adults are there to offer 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 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 professionals 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 prescription drugs and alcohol, and as part of treatment many require medical assistance not just through detoxification but to figure out 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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