The Beach Cities Health District (BCHD) board in California has voted to demolish the Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community in Redondo Beach as part of an 11-acre campus redevelopment, forcing the eviction of nearly 100 severe dementia patients. The decision matters because families say the surrounding area lacks the resources to care for their vulnerable relatives, and they warn that relocating people with advanced dementia carries serious health risks.

The board approved the redevelopment on 27 May, arguing that the buildings are more than 70 years old and that the plan has been a decade in the making. Affected patients must leave by the end of the year. Families are angered partly because, in December, BCHD chief executive Tom Bakaly had signed a letter reassuring prospective residents that they could move in "with confidence" and would retain access to a Silverado bed throughout the redevelopment. The account of the families' concerns is drawn from the Los Angeles Times.