A Wide Spread Across Forty Secured Beds
The Fieldstone at Tecumseh on Southwestern Drive is quoted at $4,800 a month, and Cambrian Memory Care of Tecumseh on North Occidental Road at $6,459. Each number is the rate that building sets for dementia care, pitched above what it charges on its assisted-living side, and the assessment done before a move decides where within its own schedule a household finally sits.
Both buildings are unusual in the same way, because every bed in this town belongs to an address that offers memory care. The Fieldstone holds twenty beds and all twenty are secured, so a resident is never on the unsecured side of a door and the staff work with one population all day. Cambrian runs thirty-five beds with twenty of them secured, which leaves a general assisted-living side alongside the dementia neighbourhood and a larger team covering both. Forty secured beds is more capacity than several county seats carry, and for the northern half of Lenawee County this small town is where that capacity lives.
Reading the Two Figures Against a Care Plan
Whichever address a family starts from, the published number covers a defined level of support and the care plan sets what sits above it. Someone who walks, sits at the table and needs steady redirection is quoted at or near the figure at The Fieldstone at Tecumseh and at Cambrian Memory Care of Tecumseh alike; one needing two people for every transfer, changing repeatedly overnight, or medication given by injection moves up a tier. Because the two published numbers sit so far apart, it is worth asking each building to price the same care plan rather than comparing entry rates that describe different levels of support.
Room type carries the rest of the difference, since a private room prices above a companion arrangement at both, and the mix is what separates them in practice: a twenty-room secured building has whatever it has open that month, while a thirty-five bed community with a secured wing of twenty can sometimes offer a choice. Deposits and any one-time charge at move-in sit outside the monthly rate at both. Short respite stays are not offered by either building, which rules out the trial week some families use to test a setting before committing.
What Each Monthly Figure Carries
The rate at either building covers the room and the utilities behind it, three meals and the snacks between them, personal laundry and housekeeping, medication management recorded by staff, secured outdoor space, and hands-on help with washing, dressing and the bathroom from caregivers trained for dementia and present on every shift.
What bills apart is consistent between the two: continence products, hairdressing, the pharmacy account, and any therapist, podiatrist or nurse practitioner who visits on their own schedule. Transport deserves attention here more than in most towns, because Tecumseh has had no hospital of its own since 2020 and appointments run six miles west to Adrian, or further north for anything the Level IV emergency department there routes onward. Ask each building what it drives and what it expects a family to cover.
Planning a Move With No Hospital in Town
Twenty secured rooms at each address gives a household a real choice in most months, though the two behave differently: a building secured throughout turns over as one pool, while a secured wing inside a larger community opens on its own rhythm regardless of what the assisted-living side is doing.
Have the file ready before a room appears, which means a recent medical evaluation recording the diagnosis, the medication list as it actually stands, notes on how the evenings and nights run at home, and a deposit that can be paid without delay. Ask each address how far it will carry a resident as dementia advances, since neither is licensed for nursing-level care and that ceiling, far more than the monthly figure, decides whether a family is making one move or the first of a pair.