Senior rehabs are designed to specifically meet the treatment needs of older and elderly treatment clients. Drug abuse among older individuals as well as the elderly is a major problem, especially as "baby boomers" go into their senior years. The time period which they come from experienced rampant recreational drug use, and for some this continued into their later years. As men and women age, the consequences associated with drug and alcohol abuse become magnified because seniors have an increased sensitivity to these substances. There's also the reality that many seniors take some type of prescription drug for a health condition, and when these medicines are abused or combined with alcohol and other recreational drugs, it's really a harmful and deadly concoction. So it is very important help provide a means for seniors and older adults to get help for any type of drug use issue before serious consequences result. Senior centers offer older adults the opportunity to live their golden years drug and alcohol free, to enable them to enjoy this critical time in their lives and not have to cope with the stresses caused by a life of drug abuse.