Senior rehabs are designed to specifically meet the treatment needs of older and elderly treatment clients. Drug use among older individuals as well as the elderly is a significant concern, particularly as "baby boomers" reach their 50s and 60s. The era which these individuals come from experienced rampant recreational substance abuse, and for some this carried on to their later years. As people age, the consequences associated with alcohol and drug abuse become intensified because older adults have a heightened sensitivity to drugs and alcohol. There is also the fact that many seniors are on some kind of medical drug for a health condition, then when these medicines are misused or combined with alcohol or another recreational drugs, it's rather a harmful and lethal concoction. So it is important to help provide an opportunity for seniors and older adults to get help for any kind of substance abuse issue before serious consequences result. Senior centers offer seniors 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 deal with the stresses caused by a lifetime of substance abuse.