The Fresno County, California, city of Sanger is home to about 25,000 residents, including roughly 2,500 people who are aged 65 and over. According to statistics published by the Alzheimer's Association, as many as one in 10 of those seniors may have Alzheimer's. In Fresno County, 11 percent of Medicare beneficiaries 65 and over have Alzheimer's or dementia.
There are two memory care facilities in the Sanger region, including one in the city proper and the other in nearby Fowler. In California, memory care may be offered in residential care facilities for the elderly, which also offer standard assisted living services, or they may be independent, as is the case with Sanger's facility.