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Drug and alcohol rehab facilities which cater to the specific needs of seniors and older adults can be more helpful for this client demographic. Senior and older adult centered recovery can help with the initial stigma that these clients feel they may experience when entering rehab and it provides support from others in the same stage of life who understand the unique difficulties they encounter. In mixed age programs seniors and older adults can sometimes be less likely to participate fully in group sessions with younger clients who don't understand their generational and age related specific issues. Addiction treatment programs that provide a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can offer a connection of mutual understanding, respect, and solace to handle the challenges to treatment.
Treatment professionals at substance abuse treatment facilities for seniors and older adults are there to deliver 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 physical or mental impairments and challenges this demographic of client faces while in recovery. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be produced with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type in reading material or treatment professionals 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 treatment many need medical assistance not just through detoxification but to determine which medical drugs should be continued or eliminated as part of the treatment process and their transition to a clean and sober lifestyle that will sustain a long and happy life.
There are 2 Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs offering this service in Poughkeepsie, NY
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