One Secured Neighborhood on a Four-Level Campus
On Van Dyke Avenue, the campus at Windemere Park Assisted Living I quotes $5,500 a month for a room behind its secured doors. Warren's other senior living addresses run at very different scales, from an independent-living community to licensed houses holding a handful of residents each, and none of them carries a secured wing, which makes this the city's only local answer for dementia care.
The campus behind that figure is unusual in Michigan for reaching every level, including skilled nursing, on one site. Roughly a third of it is secured, so memory care sits as a defined neighborhood inside a much larger operation rather than as the whole enterprise. What that arrangement gives a family is a genuinely long runway: a resident can arrive in an apartment, move into assisted living, move again into the secured neighborhood, and if nursing care eventually becomes necessary, stay on the same campus rather than start over. Very few Macomb County addresses can offer that sequence without a change of address at the end.
Where the Number Is Really Decided
The published rate opens the conversation and the assessment closes it. A nurse establishes how much of a meal a resident manages alone, whether transfers need one caregiver or two, how consistently the nights pass, and what the hours before dinner ask of staff, and that judgment places them at a secured care level carrying its own monthly charge. Someone arriving from a hospital ward is generally assessed higher than someone arriving from home.
The room is the second variable, with a secured room held privately quoted above a companion arrangement. Because the campus also runs assisted living below the secured level and skilled nursing above it, the comparison that actually helps a Warren family is vertical: what the same site charges at the level a resident occupies now, and what the next step would add. That sequence of figures is available in one conversation here in a way it rarely is elsewhere.
Where the Campus Rate Stops
Inside the monthly figure sit the secured room, all utilities, cleaning, personal laundry, food across the day, a routine built around dementia, staff awake at every hour, and an outdoor area a resident can use without being escorted. Dining and the activity calendar carry no charge of their own, and the campus setting means clinical support is on the same site rather than an appointment away.
Outside it are the costs belonging to the resident. Personal purchases are made as needed and salon appointments paid as taken, while medication remains a pharmacy cost no matter who administers it, and continence products are charged at cost. A one-time entry fee is collected when a resident moves in, quoted apart from the monthly rate, and second-person and respite pricing are quoted address by address rather than published, and the campus does not accept pets.
Planning a Move, and the Medicaid Question That Changes It
This campus accepts Medicaid, which sets it apart from most of the addresses in this lane and materially changes how a Warren household plans. It does not make a secured room free, since the accommodation and food remain a private cost, but it does mean the care portion has a route to funding that many buildings simply cannot offer.
The person who unlocks the timing is the resident's physician, whose documentation of the diagnosis and behavior picture the campus needs before its nurse can assess and before it can quote anything real. Get that moving first and the rest follows quickly. Discharge planners across Macomb County work with this campus routinely, and starting while a patient is still admitted is what allows a move on the discharge date instead of a fortnight later.