Senior rehabs are designed to meet the needs of older and elderly treatment clients. Drug use among old individuals as well as the elderly is a major concern, especially as "baby boomers" go into their senior years. The time period which they come from experienced widespread recreational drug abuse, and for some this continued into their senior years. As people age, the effects related to drug and alcohol abuse become intensified because older adults have a heightened sensitivity to drugs and alcohol. There is also the fact that many seniors take some form of medical drug for a health condition, then when these prescriptions medication is misused or combined with alcohol and other illegal drugs, it's rather a hazardous and lethal cocktail. So it is important to help provide a means for seniors and older adults to obtain help for any type of drug use issue before significant consequences result. Senior centers offer older adults the opportunity to live out their mosy enjoyable years substance free, to enable them to enjoy this important time in their lives and not have to deal with the stresses caused by a lifetime of drug abuse.