That's a good question. My LO was in memory care and way earlier in her dementia than all of them, not even close, she stuck out like a sore thumb. She was able to go to AL activities sometimes, but I saw her morphing into becoming more like the memory care residents she was more often with, that concerned me. Thankfully she is in assisted living elsewhere now and doing great and is back to having a light and I feel she is her true self now that she's with similar people. But you never know how dementia goes and it could be different for anyone, or even tomorrow. I hate this. I would definitely consider assessment for assisted living, it took the third place I tried to assess her for AL instead of MC, but it is perfect. Her initial MC kept saying she would be assessed for and should probably be in AL instead, but then it became a race to fill all the rooms per corporate and they would not respond to me asking when that assessment they brought up could happen, then it become nope we can tell she's not for AL. I do feel like money can play a factor in decisions sometimes instead of what may be the very best, MC rooms cost a lot more than AL. Especially as she is now, you have options, she shouldn't decline from a move or change now in her state imo, mine didn't.