A whopping 19 percent of the population of Brick, New Jersey, consists of people age 65 or older, some of whom are a part of the state’s 180,000 residents living with Alzheimer’s disease. Fortunately, there are 21 memory care units in the Brick area to help care for seniors with various types of dementia and other cognitive illnesses.
The Department of Health and Senior Services licenses and regulates all assisted living facilities in the Brick area, and in the rest of the state. It requires any facility with a memory care unit to have specific policies and procedures in place to care specifically for residents with cognitive and functional struggles. Additionally, these units have to be secured according to the state’s requirements to help prevent residents from wandering off on their own.