The city of Placerville, CA, is a mountain town of 11,000 people, set in the forested hills above Sacramento. Roughly 19.5 percent of Placerville residents are seniors age 65 and over, some with Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease or advanced forms of Parkinson's disease, who live in one of the town's two memory care facilities.
These sites are regulated by the state of California as long-term residential care facilities, all of which are licensed through the California Department of Social Services Adult Care Licensing program. The department regularly inspects and updates public records it keeps on licensed facilities around the state, including those in Placerville, where seniors with dementia get full-time supervision, therapeutic services and help following their doctors' long-range treatment plans.