Drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers which serve the specific and unique needs of seniors and older adults may be more beneficial for this client demographic. Senior and older adult centered recovery services can help with the initial stigma that these clients feel they may experience when entering treatment and it offers support from others in the same stage of life who understand the specific challenges they face. In mixed age facilities 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 challenges. Substance abuse treatment programs that offer a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can offer a platform of mutual understanding, respect, and comfort to work through the challenges to rehab.
Rehabilitation staff at addiction rehab facilities for seniors and older adults are there 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 specific mental or physical impairments and challenges this group of client faces while in rehab. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be presented 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 recovery many need medical intervention not just through safe detox but to figure out which prescriptions should be eliminated or continued as part of the treatment process and their transition to a clean and sober lifestyle that will sustain a long and happy life.
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