Memory and Dementia Care in a Board and Care Home

Six residents. The same caregivers every day. A licensed home in Rancho Cucamonga, Claremont, or La Verne for someone whose memory is changing.

Call (909) 775-5180
Ask a Question

If You Are Reading This, Something Has Already Happened

Most families do not search for memory care until there is an incident. The stove was left on. A wallet turned up in a freezer. A neighbor called. Someone got lost on a street they have driven for thirty years. By the time you are reading a page like this one, you are usually not researching. You are deciding.

Genesis Manor runs five licensed board and care homes across Rancho Cucamonga, Claremont, and La Verne. Each one is licensed for six residents. We are not a memory care facility with a locked wing, and we will be direct on this page about who we can care for and who we cannot.

For a lot of families in the earlier and middle stages of dementia, a six-resident house is a better fit than a sixty-bed building. For some families it is not the right answer at all, and we would rather tell you that on the phone than after a tour.

Why Six Residents Matters More When Memory Is the Problem

Dementia is a condition where environment does real clinical work. Scale, noise, and staff turnover are not cosmetic details.

The same faces, every day

A person with dementia spends real energy working out who is in the room. In a six-resident home, it is the same small group of caregivers rather than a rotating shift from a staffing pool. Many of our caregivers have been with us for years, several for more than a decade.

Less to process

Large buildings are loud. Overhead pages, hallway traffic, dining rooms with forty people. Overstimulation drives a lot of what gets labeled as agitation or sundowning. A house is a house. The noise level is the noise level of a home with six people in it.

Changes get noticed early

When a caregiver sees the same six people daily, a change in appetite, gait, or mood registers quickly. Small changes in dementia often signal something treatable underneath, like a urinary tract infection, dehydration, or a medication interaction.

Fewer moves

Every relocation costs a person with dementia something, and some of it does not come back. We keep residents through the end of life rather than discharging when needs increase, and we coordinate with outside hospice and home health providers to bring services into the home.

What Day-to-Day Support Looks Like

There is no dementia program here in the sense of a branded curriculum. There is a house, a routine, and caregivers who know the person.

Routine and Daily Care

  • The same wake time, meal time, and bed time every day
  • Bathing and dressing with cueing rather than takeover, for as long as that works
  • Medication administered on schedule, with deliveries to the home six days a week
  • Three meals plus snacks, eaten at a table with five other people
  • Help with toileting and incontinence care, handled without a production
  • Laundry, housekeeping, and the small things that stop being manageable.

Behavior, Safety, and Medical

  • Redirection instead of correction when someone is confused about time, place, or a person
  • Fall risk managed through the physical setup of the house, not through restraints
  • A licensed physician visits each home monthly
  • Coordination with neurologists, primary care, home health, and hospice agencies
  • Family kept current on changes, without waiting for a scheduled care conference
  • A caregiver living on site around the clock, seven days a week

Genesis Manor is licensed by the California Department of Social Services as a Residential Care Facility for the Elderly. We are not a licensed medical facility and we do not provide skilled nursing.

Where a Board and Care Home Fits, by Stage

Dementia is not one condition and the right setting changes over time. Here is our honest read on each stage.

Often too early for us, and we will say so. If your parent is still driving, managing their own medications, and living safely alone, a move now is usually premature. What we would suggest instead: get the legal paperwork done, look at in-home support, and start touring while there is no crisis. Families who tour early make better decisions than families who tour on a Thursday because there is a discharge on Friday.

This is where a six-resident home does its best work. The person needs help with bathing, dressing, and medications, gets confused about time and place, may repeat questions, and cannot be left alone for long stretches. They may still be pleasant company, still enjoy a meal at a table, still respond to a familiar face. A small house gives them that without the volume of a large building.

Usually still workable, and often better here than elsewhere. When someone becomes quiet, needs help with transfers, eats less, and sleeps more, the small home is an advantage. This is also where hospice frequently enters, and we coordinate with outside hospice agencies so the person can stay in the room they know rather than moving again.

There are two situations where we will tell you no, and we would rather do it on the first call than after you have toured. The first is active exit-seeking. If your loved one is trying to leave the house, our homes are not secured settings and we do not have locked units, so a facility with a secured perimeter is the safer answer. The second is a need for an awake caregiver through the night. A caregiver lives on site around the clock and responds at any hour, but overnight supervision is on call rather than continuous. If either of those describes your situation, call us anyway. We will tell you what kind of setting to look for and, where we can, point you toward specific ones.

Where This Care Happens

All five Genesis Manor homes care for residents living with memory loss, and all five are licensed for six residents. The differences between them are practical rather than clinical; where they are, how the rooms are configured, and which one has an opening that matches your timing. The right question is usually not which home does memory care, it is which home is fifteen minutes away from you and set up for your parent’s mobility.

Genesis Manor I

6354 Sacramento Avenue
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701

The original house, open since 1999.

RCFE #366402896

See this home

Genesis Manor II

2123 Aquinas Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711

Built for residents who need substantial hands-on help.

RCFE #197803648

See this home

Genesis Manor IV

1691 Genesee Avenue
La Verne, CA 91750

Set up around mobility and fall prevention.

RCFE #198204544

See this home

Genesis Manor V

550 Bethany Circle
Claremont, CA 91711

Home to several of our longest-tenured residents.

RCFE #197607290

See this home

Genesis Manor VI

6936 Amethyst Avenue
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701

Has cared for residents with some of the most demanding conditions.

RCFE #366424424

See this home
Compare All Five Homes

Paying for Care

Memory loss does not usually change the monthly rate on its own. What changes the rate is the level of hands-on care a person needs, and dementia often brings more of that over time.

Genesis Manor accepts private pay, the Medi-Cal Assisted Living Waiver, and VA Aid and Attendance. The Assisted Living Waiver matters here more than most families realize, because it is the main route through which a Medi-Cal beneficiary can have residential care covered rather than being pushed toward a skilled nursing facility. There is a waitlist and the enrollment process takes time, which is why it is worth starting before you need it.

Full detail, including what is and is not included in the monthly rate, is on Payment Options and Costs.

See Payment Options

Worth Reading Before You Decide

Tell Us What Is Going On

The first call takes about twenty minutes. You tell us what is happening, we ask about memory, mobility, medications, and how nights are going right now. No forms, no sales pitch, no placement agency in the middle. If we are not the right home, you will hear that on the first call rather than after a tour.

(909) 775-5180

This is how we will reach you. We call rather than email whenever we can.

Please do not send medical information. This form is not a secure channel. Please do not include diagnoses, medical records, medication lists, or detailed health history. We are glad to discuss your loved one’s specific care needs, and will do that by phone or in person.