Senior rehabs are designed to meet the needs of older and elderly rehab clients. Substance abuse among older individuals as well as the elderly is a major problem, particularly as "baby boomers" reach their senior years. The era which these individuals come from experienced widespread recreational drug use, and for some this persisted to their later years. As men and women age, the negative results related to substance abuse become intensified because older adults have a heightened sensitivity to these substances. There is also the reality that many seniors take some sort of medical drug for a health condition, then when these medicines are abused or combined with alcohol and other recreational drugs, it's really a harmful and deadly concoction. So it is important to help provide a means for seniors and older adults to get help for any sort of drug use issue before serious negative effects result. Senior facilities offer older adults the ability to live out their mosy enjoyable years substance free, to enable them to enjoy this critical time in their lives while not having to deal with the stresses caused by a lifetime of drug abuse.