Anthony Chicotel

According to US News and World Report, it averages about $7,600 a month, more than $91,000 a year.

So I asked Tony whether assisted living facilities should be providing memory care in the first place.

since they generally aren't medical facilities.

Memory care is where is the growth of assisted living over the last 10 years or so.

But what I'm warning consumers about is a lot of times they talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk.

And when the going gets tough for caring for someone with dementia, we are seeing facilities more and more turn to eviction notices as their remedy, rather than demonstrating expertise in providing care here, care planning for the situation, bringing in the physician, the care team, figuring out what's really going on and making the resident potentially upset and trying to fix that problem.

Tony says California has actually increased dementia care training requirements for assisted living staff, but he says training alone doesn't solve the problem if a facility accepts residents whose needs it can't adequately meet.

In 2014, we passed some new laws requiring increased training requirements related to dementia care.