Tulsa Memory Care: Which Buildings Have an Alzheimer's Disclosure on File

Why the disclosure matters more than the sign

Drive along 71st Street or Memorial Drive and you will pass several buildings advertising memory care. In Oklahoma, that phrase on a sign has no legal meaning by itself. The state does not issue a memory care license. Instead, under the Alzheimer's Disease Special Care Disclosure Act and OAC 310:673, any facility that offers a special unit or program for Alzheimer's disease or other dementia must complete a disclosure, ODH Form 613, file it with OSDH and the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, and give it to families seeking placement.

The form is the closest thing Oklahoma has to a memory care license, and it is also the most useful document a family can read before a tour, because it commits the facility in writing to how the unit works.

What we found in the state's files

We checked the public-file index for every open assisted living center, residential care home and nursing home in the six counties on October 31, 2026. The buildings marked for dementia care, by disclosure or by licensed name, are below.

A building listed as name only may well have a current disclosure that has not been scanned into the online file, and many assisted living centers care for residents with mild dementia without running a special unit at all. The table is a starting point for questions, not a ranking.

What the form must tell you

Form 613 has to describe the unit's philosophy, how residents are admitted, transferred and discharged, how care plans are made and how families take part, the staffing pattern and dementia training, the structured activity program, the physical environment and safety features, and what the special care costs. Read it with a pen. Underline every promise about staffing and training, then check those promises on the tour.

One rule is not optional for any unit that restricts residents from leaving: Oklahoma's assisted living rules require at least two staff awake and on duty on every shift, with one of them inside the restricted unit at all times. Beyond that floor there is no numeric ratio, so the form and your own observation are the only guides to whether staffing is adequate.

Questions to bring

How many residents live on the unit right now, and how many staff are physically on it at 2 a.m.? How many hours of dementia training does a new aide receive before working alone, and how often is training repeated? What happens when a resident becomes aggressive or starts falling repeatedly, and when would you ask us to move them? Can we see the activity calendar and visit during an activity?

Visit late in the afternoon if you can. Sundowning makes staffing and skill most visible between 3 and 7 p.m., and a calm unit at that hour says a great deal.

When to start looking

The best time to tour memory care is before it is needed. A parent who can still visit a unit and say what they like gives the family something no brochure can, and early touring gives time to apply for ADvantage if it will be part of the plan. Well-regarded units often have waiting lists. Some centers let a family reserve a place, and some will admit a resident to their assisted living side first and move them to the dementia unit later, which can ease the transition.

What memory care costs and how it is paid

No published median exists for memory care in Oklahoma. CareScout's 2025 Oklahoma assisted living median is $72,540 a year, about $6,045 a month, and memory care units usually charge a premium over the same building's assisted living rate. SoonerCare's ADvantage waiver can pay for the services in a participating center for a resident who meets nursing facility level of care, but never room and board, and a dementia diagnosis alone does not establish that level of care.