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Community Information
Bickford of Okemos is an assisted living facility in Okemos, MI. Bickford of Okemos offers activities at their location for residents. These activities generally allow residents to maintain healthy lifestyles by encouraging movement and socializing with their peers.
Being able to chat with other residents becomes an important part of many peoples' lives and Bickford of Okemos offers common spaces indoors to support that need. The benefit of living in an assisted living community is that making meals can be costly and time consuming process so Bickford of Okemos provides meals for residents.
Staff is awake and available 24 hours a day so if any emergencies occur no matter the time, there will be someone ready to help. Making sure residents with diabetes monitor their insulin levels is clearly an important task and Bickford of Okemos can help with that task.
Unique Features
* "If you can do it at home, you can do it here!"
* Intimate, friendly atmosphere
* Focus on life stories
* Private family owned and managed with "hands on" management and care
* Modifies activities according to resident interests
* Great staff to resident ratio
* All personnel trained at level that exceeds state/local requirements
* Caregivers required to be CNAs, most with more than 2 years' experience
* RN available 24/7
* Residents wear "lifeline" - staff have silent pagers with GPS
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Residents
MaleFemaleThe minimum age that a resident may be is years old.
Staffing
Nurses on StaffDoctor on Call24-Hour Awake StaffVisiting NurseVisiting PodiatristVisiting DentistVisiting Physical TherapistVisiting Occupational TherapistVisiting Speech Therapist
Facility Care Level
Care Level Percentage Light Care 0% Medium Care 75% Heavy Care 25% Bickford of Okemos prefers that residents need: light care, medium care, heavy care
Additional Services
Diabetic Care
The community can help residents monitor their blood sugar but cannot give insulin injections.
Memory Care Offered
This community employs technology to prevent residents from wandering and becoming lost, for example bracelets that will ring an alarm if the resident leaves the community. The memory care area of this community is secured to protect the safety of residents who wander. This community's memory care section can accept residents with major behavior issues. The community's memory care area was purpose built to care for residents with Alzheimer's and dementia.
Incontinence Care
Incontinent residents must be able to manage incontinence themselves. This staff at this community can remind incontinent residents to use the restroom. This community can care for residents with bowel incontinence. This community can care for residents with bladder incontinence.
Non Ambulatory Care
This community can provide a 2 person assisted transfer for residents who need help transferring, for example, from a bed into a wheelchair.
Other Care
This community can accept residents who are an elopement risk. This community can accept residents who act out physically. This community provides multiple levels of care allowing residents to remain at the community while receiving increasing care.
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Transportation
Resident Parking AvailableTransportation at CostSmoking
Additional Amenities
Activities OnsiteActivities OffsiteDevotional Services OnsiteDevotional Services OffsiteOutdoor Common AreasIndoor Common AreasBeautician OnsiteOther Services
Wheelchair Accessible ShowersFull TubsHospice AvailableRespite OfferedAging in PlaceMeals
Meals ProvidedVegetarianActivities Provided
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Average Room Pricing at Bickford of Okemos
Room Type Assisted Living Studio 2800.00 Monthly 1 Bedroom 3200.00 Monthly Semi-Private 2 Bedrooms 0.00 Monthly Disclaimer: The prices, amenities, features and care offered at senior communities are all subject to change; therefore information on this community profile may be out of date. Please note the costs per community are rough estimates; actual costs may vary depending on special offers and discounts, additional fees for services and care, and availability.
Estimated Fees at Bickford of Okemos
Fee Type Assisted Living Community Fee 5000.00 One-time Respite Fee 150.00 Daily Buy-In Fee High Care Needs Fee 3000.00 Monthly Medium Care Needs Fee 1800.00 Monthly Low Care Needs Fee 600.00 Monthly 2nd Person Fee 750.00 Monthly Disclaimer: The prices, amenities, features and care offered at senior communities are all subject to change; therefore information on this community profile may be out of date. Please note the costs per community are rough estimates; actual costs may vary depending on special offers and discounts, additional fees for services and care, and availability.
Paying for care
Commercial InsurancePrivate paySocial SecuritySeparate pricing structure for careVeteran's benefits
Nearby Communities
If Bickford of Okemos isn't quite what you're looking for, take a look at a few other nearby communities that might be a better match.
Nearby Cities
City | Distance | Number of Facilities | Average CostAverage Cost for 1 Bedroom |
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Okemos | 0 miles | 1 | $3,200 |
Haslett | 3 miles | 1 | $2,540 |
Holt | 5 miles | 2 | $3,780 |
DeWitt | 10 miles | 1 | $2,750 |
Lansing | 11 miles | 2 | $3,220 |
Perry | 14 miles | 1 | $3,300 |
General Pricing Information for Okemos Assisted Living
Room Type | Minimum Cost | Average Cost | Maximum Cost |
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1 Bedroom | $3,200 | $3,200 | $3,200 |
Studio | $2,800 | $2,800 | $2,800 |
Community Reviews
Very nice place.
reviewed on: 12/21/2012 by A Place For Mom CustomerVery nice place.
Liked very much. Would defi...
reviewed on: 04/19/2014 by AnonymousLiked very much. Would definitely consider Animal around in common areas was wonderful. No smoking. Loved raised bed flower beds.
Good experience at Bickford
reviewed on: 05/21/2019 by NelsonDuring the short time my mother was at Bickford in Okemos, she was well cared for. She received prompt attention and good effort was made to make her comfortable and to involve her in activities... Read the full review.
Really nice community
reviewed on: 08/07/2017 by AnonymousBickford of Okemos was a really nice community. It was very clean and well kept. When we toured the facility there was a different staff member, one for intake, one for activities, one for the... Read the full review.
covid restrictions frustrating
reviewed on: 02/05/2021 by AnonymousThe community made some promises that they were not able to keep due to staffing issues. The staff worked hard as they could but it was hard for them to have time to do everything.