Libertyville, which is located in northeastern Illinois in Lake County, is home to over 20,000 residents. Roughly 16 percent of the population is aged 65 and over, and according to the Alzheimer's Association, as many as one in 10 of those seniors may have Alzheimer's disease. In Lake County alone, about 9 percent of Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and over have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or dementia.
Libertyville has two memory care facilities, and there are over a dozen more in nearby cities. In this community, as in the rest of the state, memory care may be provided within a supportive living facility, which specializes in providing dementia care, or any assisted living facility that is licensed and certified by the state to provide dementia care.