If you are living in recovery and have found your way to this site, welcome.
You may already be familiar with the phrase Aging in Recovery. Many recovery fellowships have meetings dedicated to the topic, and countless conversations take place every day among people navigating the realities of growing older or aging in recovery.
This site is not intended to replace those conversations.
Instead, this website, Aging in Recovery, explores a question that receives far less attention:
What happens when recovery succeeds?
For decades, recovery communities have helped people rebuild their lives, reconnect with family, find purpose, contribute to their communities, and remain clean or sober one day at a time.
The modern recovery movement has now existed for generations. Many of the men and women who first found recovery in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s are still living productive lives today. Some are now in their seventies, eighties, and beyond.
That is what we mean by Aging in Recovery.
We are talking about individuals who found recovery years and often decades ago and who are now navigating the opportunities and challenges that accompany older adulthood.
As that population grows older, new questions emerge.
- How do we remain connected when driving becomes difficult?
- What happens when health problems limit our mobility?
- How do we continue participating in the recovery community when caregiving responsibilities increase?
- What happens when a person with decades of recovery requires home care, assisted living, or nursing home services?
- Who understands the importance of recovery in those settings?
These are not treatment questions; they are aging questions.
The purpose of Aging in Recovery is to explore these issues, encourage conversation, support research, and promote recovery-informed approaches to aging, caregiving, housing, transportation, and long-term care.
If you are living in recovery, your experiences matter.
Your observations matter, your voice matters.
As the recovery community continues to age, we have an opportunity to help shape the future rather than simply react to it.
Join the conversation. Join the Conversation
• Listen to the Aging in Recovery podcast
• Watch the Aging in Recovery video series
• Share your observations and experiences
Together, we can help bring visibility to the Invisible Cohort.