Senior rehabs are designed to specifically meet the treatment needs of older and elderly rehabilitation clients. Substance abuse among old individuals as well as the elderly is a major concern, especially as "baby boomers" go into their senior years. The time period which these individuals come from saw rampant recreational substance abuse, and for some this continued to their later years. As people age, the negative results related to drug and alcohol abuse become magnified because older adults have an increased sensitivity to alcohol and drugs. There's also the truth that many seniors are on some form of medical drug for a health condition, then when these medicines are abused or combined with alcohol or other recreational drugs, it could be an unsafe and lethal cocktail. So it is important to help provide a means for seniors and older persons to get help for any sort of drug use issue before serious negative effects result. Senior programs offer seniors the opportunity to live their mosy enjoyable years substance free, to enable them to enjoy this important time in their lives while not having to deal with the stresses caused by a lifetime of drug and alcohol use.