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

Drug and alcohol rehab centers which cater to the specific and unique needs of seniors and older adults can be more helpful for this client demographic. Senior and older adult focused recovery services can help with the initial stigma that these clients feel they may experience when going to treatment and it offers the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who understand the specific challenges they face. In mixed age programs seniors and older adults can sometimes be less likely to engage fully in group sessions with the younger age group who are not familiar with their generational and age related specific issues. Drug and Alcohol treatment facilities that provide a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can offer a platform of mutual respect, understanding, and comfort to handle the challenges to rehab.

Treatment staff at addiction treatment centers for seniors and older adults are prepared to offer their unique expertise with older clients to resolve age-related, generational, and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also taking into account any specific physical or mental impairments and challenges this group of client faces while in treatment. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be presented with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type in reading material or treatment therapists who are prepared to accommodate such needs of older clients by the means of 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 assistance not just through safe detox but to establish 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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