Pikesville is located along Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, about 40 miles away from the nation's capital city of Washington, D.C. Maryland currently has 110,000 people living with Alzheimer's disease, which primarily impacts adults 65 and over. In Pikesville, the senior community accounts for a quarter of the 31,000-person population, some of who have Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
To support those with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, the Pikesville area has 30 memory care facilities. Four of these facilities are located within the city limits. Families who are willing to look outside Pikesville will find more than two dozen facilities in Parkville, Hanover and Columbia. In most cases, memory care services are provided in assisted living facilities, which are officially called assisted living programs in Maryland.