St Clair Shores holds two large senior-living buildings that do entirely separate jobs. Beechwood Manor on Greater Mack Avenue runs 98 care beds including a twenty-bed secured neighbourhood, while Leisure Manor on Jefferson Avenue offers 92 independent apartments with no care attached at all.
Macomb County's residents past 65 come to roughly 170,200, some 19.2 percent of the population, and St Clair Shores runs older than the county average as one of its established lakefront suburbs. Between the two buildings the city holds 190 units, which is real depth for a place of its size.
Care and Apartments at St Clair Shores' Two Addresses
The split here is unusually clean, with one building for care and one for apartments.
- Independent Living: All of Leisure Manor, 92 apartments on Jefferson Avenue where residents live independently and bring in any help they need themselves.
- Assisted Living: All of Beechwood Manor's unsecured capacity, 78 of its 98 beds, which is the largest single block of assisted living in this corner of the county.
- Memory Care: Twenty secured beds at Beechwood Manor, the only secured setting in St Clair Shores and the reason families facing a diagnosis start there.
- Skilled Nursing: Neither building holds that licence, so nursing care is arranged elsewhere in Macomb County, usually following a hospital admission.
The practical route through St Clair Shores runs from an apartment on Jefferson Avenue to a care bed on Greater Mack when help becomes necessary, though that second move is between buildings rather than within one.
Healthcare Access in St Clair Shores
St Clair Shores sits closer to Detroit's hospitals than to Macomb County's own. Henry Ford St. John Hospital on Detroit's east side is the nearest Level I trauma center, a full-service campus carrying heart, cancer, stroke and orthopedic specialties along with advanced neonatal care and a dedicated inpatient rehabilitation center.
Inside the county sit two Level II centres, the 288-bed McLaren Macomb teaching hospital at Mount Clemens and Henry Ford Macomb Hospital at Clinton Township, whose 361 beds carry stroke, cardiac and joint replacement programs. A resident on Greater Mack therefore has a Level I centre and two Level II hospitals all within a short drive.
What St Clair Shores' Pricing Looks Like
Assisted living at Beechwood Manor is $4,650 a month in 2026 and its secured memory care is $5,800, a step of $1,150 between the two tiers inside one building.
Leisure Manor prices differently because it sells housing rather than care, so its apartments carry no personal-care component and the comparison between the two addresses is not really a comparison at all. An entry fee applies at Beechwood Manor, and a short respite stay there is charged by the night.
Why Families Choose St Clair Shores
St Clair Shores runs along Lake St. Clair, and the Nautical Mile, the canals and the boat wells are what brought most of its households here decades ago. Very few of them want to spend a last chapter inland.
Both senior-living addresses sit inside the city near that water, so a resident keeps the same parish, the same shops and the same view rather than trading them for a suburb further from the lake.
What a Local Advisor Brings to St Clair Shores
Because the two buildings serve different purposes, the useful conversation here is about which one a person actually needs now and what happens when that changes. A Local Senior Advisor tracks the twenty secured beds at Beechwood Manor, knows how quickly its assisted-living rooms turn over, and can explain how a waiver file with AgeWays Nonprofit Senior Services would work, since neither address bills Medicaid.
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