Memory care around Baton Rouge

What is memory care in Louisiana?

A specialized dementia care program inside a licensed ARCP, disclosed to LDH, that separates residents with Alzheimer's or a related dementia and is marketed as dementia care; Louisiana has no separate memory care license.

Across the region, 1 licensed ARCP uses memory care in the licensed name (Holly Court Assisted Living and Memory Care); more buildings market dementia programs without saying so on the license, so the written program policies are the document that matters.

What does memory care cost around Baton Rouge?

No memory care median is published for Louisiana or Baton Rouge; programs typically charge the assisted living rate plus a dementia-program premium, so get a written quote.

Louisiana Medicaid does not pay an ARCP's dementia program. A Medicaid-certified nursing home is the Medicaid-paid alternative when needs and finances call for it.

What should we ask a memory care program?

Ask for the written program policies and inclusion and discharge criteria, the Fire Marshal approval for locked exits, overnight staffing, and proof of eight hours of dementia training for hands-on staff.

• An ARCP may run a separate and distinct program for residents with Alzheimer's disease or a related disorder, with individualized care based on an assessment of each resident's cognitive and functional abilities (§6851.A).
• The ARCP must disclose the program to LDH when it starts it and when it ends it (§6851.B).
• An ARCP that markets a specialized dementia care program must keep written policies for it that are available to staff, residents and members of the public (§6851.C).
• It must have written criteria for who is included, and give those guidelines to the resident, family and legal representative (§6851.C).
• Door locking to create a secured area is allowed only where residents' clinical needs require it and the arrangement is approved by the Office of State Fire Marshal (§6851.C).
• Staff who give direct face-to-face care in the program need at least eight hours of dementia-specific training within 90 days of hire and eight hours every year after (§6867).

When is a nursing home a better fit than memory care?

When a person with dementia needs continuous nursing, restraints, or care for a condition Louisiana bars from ARCPs, or can no longer evacuate with ARCP staff help.

See memory care compared with a nursing home.

Where are memory care programs found around Baton Rouge?

Mostly in the larger Level 3 and 4 ARCPs in South and Southeast Baton Rouge, Gonzales, Denham Springs, Zachary and Central, and in the region's nursing homes, but LDH does not publish which ARCPs have disclosed a program.

Ask every larger building directly whether it runs a specialized dementia care program, and use the memory care page to see which licensed buildings to call first. A building that cares for residents with dementia without a separate program must still give all direct care staff two hours of dementia training a year.

Where is memory care licensed around Baton Rouge?

This is how LDH's November 2026 roster spreads memory care across the parishes that have any; capacity means LDH's licensed residents for ARCPs and CMS certified beds for nursing homes.