The Addict Down the Hall [NewOldAge.Blogs.NYTimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/18/144:00 AM

Later this month, new residents will arrive at a nursing home in the Bronx. Like other coming to Jewish Home Lifecare, they will be recuperating from hospitalization for cardiac surgery, strokes, fractured hips -the whole panoply of senior ills.

But these residents also will be addicted to alcohol or prescription drugs, and so they will be enrolled in an unusual rehab program at the nursing home.

Older adults suffer plenty of substance abuse, though it often goes unrecognized. They may struggle with lifelong addictions or misuse prescription drugs they began taking to cope with recent pain, either physical or psychological.

[For more of this story, written by Paula Span, go to http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes...the-hall/?ref=health]

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