Jefferson County is home to nearly 85,000 residents, including a large senior community that accounts for nearly 17 percent of the population. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, nearly one in 10 of the seniors in this county who receive Medicare benefits are living with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia.
Jefferson County families who are researching local memory care services find four memory care facilities in the county, including two in Fort Atkinson, one in Johnson Creek and one in the city of Jefferson. While some memory care facilities in Jefferson County, including the one in the city of Jefferson, occupy their own building and only provide dementia care, others share campuses with community-based residential facilities that provide specialized services for residents with dementia.