Independence Township wraps around the Village of Clarkston, and its own senior-living address sits outside the village boundary on Water Tower Place. Addington Place of Clarkston carries 72 beds with 35 of them inside a secured memory-care neighborhood, permits pets, and gives the township very nearly half its capacity in secured rooms.
Oakland County holds roughly 250,500 residents past 65, and the northern townships take a steady share, which is how a township of this size supports a building of 72 beds on top of the two already standing inside the village it surrounds.
What Addington Place Covers
The township's address provides two of the four standard care levels, with the balance tilted heavily toward the secured side.
- Independent Living: Not offered here, so township households at that stage stay on their own land, of which there is a good deal between the lakes north of the village.
- Assisted Living: Provided at $5,300 a month across 37 beds, taking in help with medication, washing and dressing through the day.
- Memory Care: Thirty-five secured beds at $6,800, a larger pool than the entire village of Clarkston carries between its two buildings.
- Skilled Nursing: Beyond what this building does, so a nursing stay follows a hospital admission and is organised by the ward team.
Because the township and the village function as one market in practice, a household here is usually comparing three buildings rather than one, and Addington Place is the largest of them.
Healthcare Access in Independence Township
Northern Oakland County reaches several hospitals without holding one, and Pontiac is the closest cluster. Trinity Health Oakland runs 486 beds under a Level II trauma verification it has carried since 2012, and McLaren Oakland adds 328 beds at the same grade with trauma surgeons on site continuously.
To the west, DMC Huron Valley-Sinai holds 153 beds in Commerce Township along with its Krieger Center for older adults, and Beaumont Troy carries 520 beds south. Cases exceeding a Level II travel to Royal Oak, which holds the county's Level I verification.
What Independence Township Pricing Looks Like
Addington Place of Clarkston charges $5,300 a month for assisted living in 2026 and $6,800 for a secured memory-care room, a step of $1,500 between the two.
Both figures sit above the two village buildings a few minutes south, where assisted living runs $4,250 to $5,359 and memory care lands near $5,900. For a household treating the township and the village as one search, that spread is the practical reason to look at all three rather than the nearest.
Why Families Choose Independence Township
Clintonwood Park runs to 120 acres on Clarkston Road and holds the township's Senior Community Center, which offers health and fitness classes, daily drop-in activities, day and overnight travel, transportation, Meals on Wheels delivery and a specialist whose job is helping older residents find the services they need.
That last item is rarer than it should be, and for a household weighing whether a move is necessary yet, having somebody local whose work is exactly that question often buys another year at home.
What a Local Advisor Brings to Independence Township
The township and the village share a market and a name, so knowing all three buildings is the baseline rather than the extra. An advisor working this end of Oakland County tracks turnover across Addington Place and the two village addresses, reports which of the combined secured beds are genuinely free, and can mark out what the MI Choice waiver will offset once private funds start to look finite.
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