Richmond's senior living is a twenty-bed house on Russ Road rather than a community building. Ridgeway holds fourteen assisted-living beds and six secured for memory care, which is the whole of what the city offers and enough to cover most of what households here actually ask for.
Macomb County has roughly 170,200 residents past 65, close to a fifth of everyone living there. Richmond sits at the county's far northeastern corner near the St. Clair County line, well away from the busier southern suburbs and their larger buildings.
Two Care Levels in a Twenty-Bed House
Small scale shapes everything about how care works at this address.
- Independent Living: Absent from Richmond, so an apartment without care attached means staying in the house or the farm a household already owns.
- Assisted Living: Fourteen of the twenty beds, at a size where the staff learn each resident's habits instead of consulting a chart.
- Memory Care: Six secured beds, a small number but the only ones in the city, giving a resident somewhere to move without leaving Richmond.
- Skilled Nursing: Unavailable at the Russ Road address, meaning nursing-level care is arranged elsewhere in the county after a hospital stay.
Six secured beds go quickly, so a household expecting to need one is far better served by an early conversation than by waiting for the need to arrive.
Healthcare Access in Richmond
Richmond sits further from a hospital than most places in this county, and the drive still lands at serious capacity. McLaren Macomb at Mount Clemens is a 288-bed teaching hospital verified at Level II for trauma, with cardiac, orthopedic, oncology and rehabilitation services alongside its emergency department.
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital at Clinton Township is the other Level II option, 361 beds running a primary stroke center, a cardiac program and inpatient rehabilitation. Level I trauma means leaving the county for Detroit's east side or Royal Oak, though a Richmond household rarely makes that drive more than once.
What Richmond's Pricing Looks Like
Ridgeway asks $4,200 a month for assisted living in 2026 and $5,300 for one of its six secured rooms, putting $1,100 between them.
With a single address in the city, both are the Richmond rate rather than one end of a range, and what varies them is the care plan a resident is assessed for. A one-off charge falls due on arrival, and short stays carry a nightly rate outside the monthly figure.
Why Families Choose Richmond
Richmond kept its small-city character while the rest of Macomb County suburbanised, and the Good Old Days festival each September is still the fixed point in a calendar that households here have kept for generations.
A resident moving into Russ Road stays inside that same small circle rather than heading south into the subdivisions, which for a family that has farmed or worked in this corner of the county for decades is the entire reason to look locally first.
What a Local Advisor Brings to Richmond
Six secured beds and fourteen assisted-living beds is a narrow field, so the whole value lies in knowing when either side has space and whether a household-scale setting genuinely suits a person. A Local Senior Advisor covers both, and can outline how an AgeWays waiver file works, since Ridgeway bills no Medicaid.
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