Memory Care & Assisted Living for Ann Arbor, Michigan Families
Memory Lane Assisted Living serves Ann Arbor from three six-bedroom homes on Carpenter Road in Ypsilanti — Michigan-licensed adult foster care, a 1:3 caregiver-to-resident ratio by day, and one all-inclusive monthly rate.
Memory care near Ann Arbor, in a true home
If you are searching for memory care in Ann Arbor, you may have already walked through a large building or two. Memory Lane is a different kind of place. Our three homes sit on Carpenter Road in Ypsilanti, a short drive from anywhere in Ann Arbor, and each one is a six-bedroom house on a quiet residential street. Your loved one has a bedroom of their own, eats home-cooked meals at a shared kitchen table, and is cared for by kindhearted caregivers who know their name, their story, and their habits.
We do not operate a separate Ann Arbor building, and families tell us the location works in their favor. It is less than 30 minutes from downtown Ann Arbor — close enough for a weekday visit after work, and quiet enough that a person living with dementia can settle in without the bustle of a larger campus.
Every home is a Michigan-licensed AFC Adult Foster Care residence, which is how Michigan licenses small, round-the-clock care in a real house. It is the same level of support you would expect from assisted living, delivered by caregivers trained in dementia care, with far fewer residents per caregiver.
Who comes to Memory Lane from Ann Arbor
Our residents come from neighborhoods all around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. Some families have lived in Ann Arbor for decades and want their parent close by. Others move a loved one here to be nearer to grandchildren, or nearer to U-M Health so that appointments and hospital visits stay simple. We work regularly with discharge planners and clinicians at U-M Health and other Washtenaw County providers, and many families first hear about us from a physician or social worker who has toured our homes.
There are always openings. That matters when a hospital stay or a hard week at home turns "someday" into "this week." You can call, tour, and begin the evaluation within days — not wait on a list.
Staying close when your loved one moves from Ann Arbor
The fear families name most often is distance — that moving a parent out of the house will mean seeing less of them. In a small home, the opposite tends to happen. Families are part of the day here. You can join your loved one on the porch, sit with them at the kitchen table for a meal, or bring the grandchildren after school, and the caregivers on shift will know you by name within a visit or two.
Person-centered care starts with what your loved one still enjoys. Our Recreational Therapist's evaluation records the music, the routines, the small jobs, and the comforts that make a day feel like theirs, and every care plan is built to celebrate those remaining abilities rather than dwell on what has changed. When needs grow, the plan grows with them — and the rate stays the same.
The Memory Lane difference for Ann Arbor families
Seven things that define how care works here, so you can compare us with anything else you are considering in Ann Arbor.
Six-bedroom homes
Three homes on Carpenter Road, each with six private bedrooms, a shared kitchen table, and a porch. Small enough that every caregiver knows every resident.
1:3 by day, 1:6 at night
Two caregivers are on shift in each home throughout the day and one overnight. That ratio is what makes hands-on help with bathing, dressing, and meals possible.
Michigan-licensed adult foster care
Each home is licensed by the state of Michigan as an Adult Foster Care (AFC) residence, with standards for staffing, safety, medication management, and resident rights.
Every diagnosis, including Lewy Body
Alzheimer's disease, Lewy Body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia, Parkinson's dementia, and other subtypes. Complex diagnoses are welcome here.
A Recreational Therapist first
Every care plan begins with an evaluation by a Recreational Therapist, so the plan is built around what your loved one still enjoys and can still do.
One all-inclusive monthly rate
Room and board, round-the-clock care, meals, supplies, activities, and housekeeping in one rate that varies only by room type and does not increase as care needs change.
Family-owned, physician-owned, nurse-led
Owned by a family that includes a geriatrics physician and led day to day by a nurse. The people who set the standard are the people you will meet on your tour.
What a first visit looks like
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Call or send the form.
Tell us what is going on — the diagnosis, what a typical day looks like, and what has become hard at home. There is no wrong place to start.
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Tour a home.
Walk through the kitchen, the bedrooms, and the porch, and meet the caregivers on shift. Bring your loved one if you can; many families find that seeing a real house is what puts them at ease.
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Meet our Recreational Therapist.
Every care plan begins with their evaluation: what your loved one enjoys, what comforts them, what unsettles them, and which of our three homes will suit them best.
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Choose a room and move in.
Pick a regular room or a master suite, bring the photographs and the favorite chair, and let us help make the bedroom feel like theirs from the first night.
Assisted living or memory care? What Ann Arbor families ask us
Many families begin by searching for assisted living in Ann Arbor and find their way to memory care once a diagnosis is clear. The difference is not the building. It is the training and the ratio. Memory Lane delivers assisted-living-level support — help with bathing, dressing, medications, and meals — from caregivers trained in dementia care, with enough of them on shift to be hands-on all day.
If you are not sure which your loved one needs, come and talk it through with us. A good plan celebrates remaining abilities and adjusts gently as needs change, and the rate stays the same either way.
Memory care near Ann Arbor — your questions answered
Schedule a tour from Ann Arbor
Come see the comforts of home for yourself. We are a short drive from anywhere in Ann Arbor, and there are openings now.