Senior rehabs are mean to help specifically meet the treatment needs of older and elderly treatment clients. Drug use among older individuals along with the elderly is a significant problem, especially as "baby boomers" reach their 50s and 60s. The time period which these individuals come from experienced rampant recreational drug abuse, and for some this continued into their senior years. As people age, the consequences associated with alcohol and drug abuse become magnified because seniors have a heightened sensitivity to alcohol and drugs. There is also the fact that many seniors take some kind of medical drug for a health condition, then when these prescriptions medication is abused or combined with alcohol and other recreational drugs, it could be a dangerous and lethal concoction. So it is important to help provide a means for seniors and older adults to get help for any type of drug use issue before serious consequences result. Senior programs offer seniors the ability to live out their mosy enjoyable years substance free, so they can enjoy this important time in life and not have to cope with the strains and stress caused by a life of substance abuse.