Hobart is a city of about 28,000 people and has a large senior community that makes up almost 17 percent of the population. The city is situated in Lake County, Indiana, where the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project that roughly 13 percent of seniors receiving Medicare benefits have Alzheimer's disease or dementia.
In Hobart, as in the rest of the state, memory care facilities are officially called dementia special care units. DSCUs may be located within assisted living facilities that provide flexible care plans, or they may be located within their own standalone building. In the Hobart region, there are eight memory care facilities, including one in Hobart proper and the other seven in nearby cities like Crown Point and Schererville.