Senior rehabs are designed to specifically meet the treatment needs of older and elderly treatment clients. Drug abuse among older individuals along with the elderly is a major problem, especially as "baby boomers" reach their senior years. The time period which they come from experienced rampant recreational substance abuse, and for some this persisted to their later years. As people age, the effects related to alcohol and drug abuse become magnified because older adults have an increased sensitivity to drugs and alcohol. There is also the fact that many seniors take some sort of medical drug for a health condition, and when these medicines are misused or mixed with alcohol and other recreational drugs, it's really a hazardous and lethal cocktail. So it is important to help provide an opportunity for seniors and older persons to obtain help for any kind of drug use issue before serious negative effects result. Senior facilities offer older adults the opportunity to live out their golden years substance free, so they can enjoy this important time in their lives and not have to cope with the strains and stress caused by a lifetime of drug abuse.