One Building, Three Levels, and a Secured Wing at the Top
Secured rooms at Pomeroy Living Orion Assisted & Memory Care, the East Scripps Road community, are priced at $6,300 a month. The same building rents independent apartments and runs assisted living, so the memory care figure is not a standalone market rate but the highest of three steps under one roof, and a resident can reach it without ever changing address.
That structure is unusual for a township rather than a city, and it exists because this is among the largest senior living buildings in Oakland County. Only about a quarter of its rooms are secured, which means the memory care neighborhood is a defined area inside a much larger community rather than the whole enterprise. A family touring will walk past apartments and an assisted living floor before reaching the locked doors, and that is worth experiencing deliberately, because it is what a resident's own path through the building would look like. Few townships offer that continuity at all, and none of the surrounding ones offer it from a building of this size.
Why the Secured Figure Sits Where It Does
The distance between the assisted living rate and $6,300 pays for things a visitor can identify. Staff stay awake through the night in the secured area rather than covering it on rounds, the ratio of caregivers to residents is tighter, and the day is arranged around repetition because predictability is what makes dementia support work. Doors, outdoor access and dining are all set up so a resident can move without being interrupted every few minutes.
Where inside the secured levels a particular resident lands is decided by assessment, not by the published number. The nurse looks at how meals go, whether a transfer is safe with one person, how the nights run, and what the late afternoon asks of staff. A room held alone is also quoted above one shared with a companion. Two families touring in the same week can therefore leave with quite different totals attached to the same $6,300 base.
What the Township Rate Carries
Start with the staffing, because it is the largest part of what the figure buys: someone awake and present at every hour, trained for dementia rather than assigned to it. Around that sit the secured room, heat and power, cleaning, personal laundry, food across the day with something available between meals, the daily routine, and access to a secured outdoor area.
Charged separately are the things belonging to a person rather than a building. Incontinence supplies are billed at cost, salon appointments are paid as taken, guest meals are added when family eat in, and prescriptions remain a pharmacy expense however staff handle them. A one-time charge is collected when a room is held, quoted on its own. Worth noting for households with a dog or a cat: this address does not take pets, which occasionally settles the question before any figure does.
Planning a Move in a One-Address Township
A single building carrying the township's secured capacity would normally mean long waits, and the scale here softens that. Thirty-odd secured rooms turn over often enough that a family who is ready is rarely waiting months, though the room that suits a particular resident is a narrower target than any available room.
Preparation comes down to two things: the building's own nurse assessment, and a physician's statement setting out the diagnosis and the behavior picture, and everything else follows from those. Families already living in the apartments or the assisted living floor have an advantage worth naming, since the staff assessing them have watched the change happen and the move is a corridor rather than a relocation.