Memory care (SNALR) in the Rochester area

Which Rochester-area residences have SNALR memory care?

27 licensed residences in the five counties are certified as Special Needs Assisted Living Residences, with 793 SNALR beds in the 2026 Q2 capacity report; 3 of them are certified SNALR for every bed.

Why use the state capacity report to find memory care?

Because New York lets only SNALR-certified residences keep assisted living residents whose dementia requires a specialized setting, the SNALR bed count each residence reports to the Department of Health is the official evidence that memory care exists there; the phrase memory care on its own has no legal meaning.

A SNALR must follow a special needs plan the department approved, covering staffing, training, environment and activities. See New York's memory care rules. Nursing homes also run dementia units, but New York's bulk nursing home data does not publish their size, so they are not listed here.