Senior rehabs are designed to meet the needs of older and elderly treatment clients. Substance abuse among older individuals along with the elderly is a significant problem, especially as "baby boomers" reach their senior years. The era which they come from experienced rampant recreational substance abuse, and for some this continued to their later years. As people age, the consequences linked to alcohol and drug abuse become magnified because older adults have an increased sensitivity to these substances. Additionally there is the reality that many seniors take some kind of medical drug for an ailment, then when these medicines are misused or combined with alcohol or any other illegal drugs, it can be a hazardous and deadly cocktail. So it is important to help provide a means for seniors and older adults to acquire help for any sort of substance abuse issue before significant negative effects result. Senior programs offer older adults the ability to live out 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 strains and stress caused by a lifetime of substance abuse.