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PTSD, Long-Term Recovery, and the Invisible Cohort

For decades, public discussions about addiction have focused primarily on active substance use, homelessness, incarceration, and crisis. Far less attention has been devoted to the large and growing population of individuals who achieved long-term recovery years ago and are now aging into later adulthood. Many of these individuals rebuilt families, careers, and stable lives during […]

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My Concept: The Aging In Recovery Residential Model

For decades, public systems in the United States have approached addiction and aging as entirely separate issues. We developed addiction treatment systems for people struggling with substance use disorders, and we developed aging services for older adults requiring assistance later in life. What society failed to anticipate was that millions of people would successfully recover

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Aging in recovery is not aging as usual
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Aging in Recovery Is Not Aging as Usual: Why Specialized Elder Care Matters

As more Americans live longer, a new population is emerging that has received far too little attention: older adults in long-term recovery from substance use disorder. Many people assume that once a person has remained clean or sober for years, they simply age like everyone else and can rely on the same senior services available

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Aging in Recovery: What the Data Already Tells Us

The question is no longer whether individuals age in recovery. The question is whether existing data support treating them as a distinct population requiring a different model of care. The answer is yes. Current research provides a clear foundation for this conclusion. An estimated 20.5 million Americans identify as being in recovery from a substance

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Aging in Recovery Residential Model (ARRM): What the Evidence Requires

The development of systems addressing substance use disorders and aging has occurred along separate trajectories. Treatment systems have focused on initiating recovery, while aging systems have evolved to address chronic illness and long-term care. The convergence of these two realities—long-term recovery and population aging—has produced a structural condition that existing systems were not designed to

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Aging in Recovery: Rethinking Social Work Across the Lifespan

Social work has long been a field defined by its response to visible human need—crises, poverty, institutional neglect, and systemic inequality. Over time, influential figures such as Dorothea Dix, Jane Addams, Mary Richmond, and Saul Alinsky shaped frameworks to address urgent social problems. Yet despite this evolution, a critical phase remains underdeveloped in theory: what

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