Memory Care Communities in Diamond Bar, California

Memory Care costs in Diamond Bar start around $5,000 per month on average, while the nationwide average cost of memory care is $5,743 per month.

It’s important to note that memory care rates in Diamond Bar and the surrounding suburbs can vary widely based on factors such as location, the level of care needed, apartment size and the types of amenities offered at each community.

While many families use their own funds or personal assets to pay for memory care, there are plenty of additional options to cover these costs. Some additional ways to finance memory care costs include:

• Veterans Benefits
• Life Insurance Policy
• Long-Term Care Insurance
• Reverse Mortgage

For more information about different ways to finance memory care, visit our Memory Care in California page.

Diamond Bar, California, is a city of 56,600 people east of Los Angeles, situated close to the Chino hills. About 15.6 percent of Diamond Bar's residents are seniors aged 65 and up, many living with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia, who require daily supervision and assistance with following a doctor's treatment plan.

The area in and around Diamond Bar has 19 memory care facilities for seniors with dementia, where trained staff look after residents in facilities that are often part of larger networks of long-term residential care facilities. These facilities are all required by the state to be licensed through the California Department of Social Services Adult Care Licensing Program, which monitors and reports on conditions at each of the thousands of sites it is charged with overseeing.

• Summertime highs in Diamond Bar average 89 degrees in July and August, which brings dry weather and dust that can affect some seniors with COPD and allergies. Winters are mild, with December and January lows averaging 41 degrees. Diamond Bar is close to the coast, and it gets 17 inches of rain a year, on average.
  
• Diamond Bar has a general cost of living that's almost exactly double the national median for all categories combined. Housing in this area is costly, but seniors in memory care may save money on health care in Diamond Bar, where costs are approximately 85 percent of the national average cost.
  
• Crime rates in Diamond Bar are very low in every category. Violent crime, of the sort that seniors need to be especially concerned, is nearly absent from here, and even property crime rates hover around one-third of the national average.
  
• The Diamond Bar area is home to world-class medical facilities, including those specializing in brain health and dementia care such as Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center and Chino Valley Medical Center, in the event of medical emergencies or illness.