Grand Pines Assisted Living Center

Grand Pines Assisted Living Center, located in Grand Haven, Michigan, offers exceptional services, amenities, and affordability to meet your assisted living needs. Grand Pines offers support services personalized to the individual needs of our residents, including specialized care for those suffering from dementia, Alzheimer’s, or other forms of memory impairment from our dedicated care center, in addition to housekeeping, laundry service, and daily meals.

Grand Pines Living Center is fully licensed by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MMDHHS) as a Home for the Aged. Our staff is carefully vetted and thoroughly trained to care for and monitor our residents’ physical and mental well-being.

At Grand Pines Assisted Living Center, our mission is to provide a setting that feels like home for the senior adults we care for. We seek to provide an environment that is as unrestricted as possible, fosters the social and psychological development of residents, and enables residents to maintain dignity and self-sufficiency.

Grand Pines provides the following services, included in our monthly fee, to ensure the happiness and well-being of each of our residents. Our staff is available at all times to assist residents with any personal needs, planned or unplanned.

Our meals are home-cooked and nutritious! Everyday, three meals are served in the dining room, though residents may choose to dine in their rooms, for an extra charge.

Medication assistance, including opening medication containers, reminding you to take your medication, or administering medicine, is available 24 hours per day, seven days per week, and is supervised by a registered nurse.

We take time to talk with our residents everyday to see how they’re doing, as well as deliver mail and newspapers.

Grand Pines’s maintenance staff is available to perform necessary maintenance tasks which range from the mundane (changing light bulbs, hanging photographs, touching up paint) to more serious maintenance issues.

Our housekeepers treat residents’ apartments and property with respect and delicacy. Our housekeeping activities follow this schedule:

• Daily
• Make the bed
• Twice weekly
• Change bath towels
• Weekly
• Change bed linens
• Clean bathroom
• Dust and vacuum apartment
• Wash personal laundry

Our desire is that each resident is able to live well. To this end, we offer a variety of activities and programs designed to help our residents achieve and maintain wellness.

• Wellness seminars
• Regular blood pressure checks
• Medication assistance and pharmacist medication review
• Eyeglass and hearing aid checks
• Registered nurses on staff
• Podiatrist visits
• Exercise and fall prevention programs, lead by trained physical and occupational therapy professionals
• Nintendo Wii® games including bowling, tennis, and golf
• Walking groups
• Chair dancing
• Social events and opportunities for social engagement
• Senior aerobics
• Balloon toss

The Terrace, Grand Pines’ specialized memory care unit, is devoted to meeting the needs of residents with memory impairments such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The Terrace’s staff is specially trained to work with individuals experiencing memory impairment and to understand the struggles and challenges these individuals face.

The Terrace provides residents with an altered environment that makes fewer demands on memory and failing skills, resulting in reduced stress, anxiety, and confusion; improved daily functioning; and an improved quality of life for the resident.

The Terrace’s support services include:

• Care planning that is person-centered, rather than focused on the disease or lost skills
• Maintaining daily routines
• Guiding social interaction with peers, staff, and visitors
• Supporting family caregivers
• Encouraging physical activity such as walking, dancing, and seated exercises
• Assisting during meal time
• Dressing, grooming, and bathing assistance
• Assisting with toileting and incontinence