Senior rehabs are designed to specifically meet the treatment needs of older and elderly treatment clients. Substance abuse among older individuals and the elderly is a major problem, particularly as "baby boomers" go into their 50s and 60s. The time period which they come from experienced widespread recreational drug abuse, and for some this continued to their later years. As individuals age, the consequences connected with drug and alcohol abuse become intensified because older adults have a heightened sensitivity to alcohol and drugs. There's also the reality that many seniors are on some kind of medical drug for an ailment, and when these medicines are misused or mixed with alcohol or another illegal drugs, it can be a risky and lethal cocktail. So it is important to help provide a means for seniors and older adults to get help for any kind of drug abuse issue before serious negative effects result. Senior facilities offer older adults the ability to live out their mosy enjoyable years alcohol and drug free, for them to enjoy this critical time in life and not have to deal with the stresses caused by a life of substance abuse.