Pricing ranges from
    $3,232 – 3,878/month

    Joy Givers

    7438 N Long Lake Rd, Traverse City, MI 49684
    • Assisted Living

    Kind, clean, safe, attentive care

    I'm very pleased overall - the staff are kind, professional, and accommodating, offering meaningful engagement and excellent care. The community feels warm and home-like, is clean and safe with spotless rooms, great meals, reliable medication service, and attentive housekeeping. I'm grateful and would recommend it.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    5.00·(3)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      5.0
    • Staff

      5.0
    • Meals

      5.0
    • Amenities

      5.0
    • Value

      5.0

    Pros

    • Kind and professional staff
    • Caring and understanding caregivers
    • Friendly and welcoming environment
    • Warm, home-like atmosphere
    • Clean and spotless rooms
    • Clean and safe facility
    • Excellent housekeeping
    • Great meals and food quality
    • Good medication/medicine service
    • Meaningful engagement and activities
    • Accommodating and flexible staff
    • Affordable pricing
    • Highly recommended by reviewers

    Summary of reviews

    Overall sentiment: The reviews from Joy Givers are uniformly positive and emphasize a high level of satisfaction across multiple dimensions of the senior living experience. Reviewers consistently highlight the compassionate nature of the staff, the cleanliness and safety of the facility, and the quality of daily living services. There are no negative themes or complaints presented in the summaries provided.

    Care quality and clinical support: Reviewers describe the care as excellent and express gratitude for the attention residents receive. Specific praise is given to medication/medicine service and to the competence and professionalism of caregivers. The language used—"professional," "understanding," and "caring"—indicates that families and residents perceive both clinical reliability and emotional support in care interactions.

    Staff and culture: Staff-related comments are the most frequent and most emphatic theme. Descriptors such as "kind," "friendly," "warm," "accommodating," and "flexible" recur throughout the summaries. Reviewers note that staff create a welcoming environment for seniors and that interactions feel personal and respectful. Phrases like "highly recommended" and "gratitude" suggest strong overall trust in staff performance and the facility culture.

    Facilities and housekeeping: Cleanliness and safety are repeatedly noted. Rooms are called "clean and spotless," and the facility overall is described as "clean and safe," which points to consistent housekeeping and maintenance practices. Excellent housekeeping is explicitly mentioned, reinforcing the impression of attention to hygiene and resident comfort. The facility is also characterized as having a "home-like atmosphere," indicating an environment that balances institutional care with a residential feel.

    Dining and daily life: Dining receives positive, specific mention: reviewers describe "great meals" and "great food." This suggests that food quality and meal service are strong contributors to resident satisfaction. In addition to meals, reviewers also highlight "meaningful engagement," indicating that activities and programming are present and valued. The combination of good food and purposeful activities supports residents’ quality of life beyond basic care needs.

    Affordability and recommendations: Affordability is noted as a positive factor in the summaries, and multiple reviewers explicitly recommend the facility. The presence of both affordability and perceived high quality (care, staffing, cleanliness, meals) is a notable pattern that strengthens the overall favorable impression.

    Notable patterns and considerations: The dominant pattern is uniformly positive feedback with recurring emphasis on staff kindness, cleanliness, and good food. There are no negative comments provided in these summaries, which is itself a notable signal of satisfaction but also suggests the set of reviews may be selectively positive or limited in scope. The summaries do not provide detail on some operational aspects often important to decision-makers, such as staff-to-resident ratios, response times for clinical emergencies, long-term outcomes, or the experiences of residents with more complex medical needs.

    Conclusion and recommended follow-ups: Based on the review summaries, Joy Givers appears to provide compassionate, professional care in a clean, safe, and home-like setting with good food and meaningful activities at an affordable price point. Prospective residents and families would likely find the culture and daily experience reassuring. Because the reviews are strongly positive and do not mention potential weaknesses, it would be prudent for prospective families to verify specific operational and clinical details (e.g., staffing levels, care plans for complex conditions, and emergency protocols) during a tour or discussion with management to confirm the fit for individual care needs.

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    Location

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    Joy Givers is located at 7438 N Long Lake Rd, Traverse City, MI, 49684.

    About Joy Givers

    Joy Givers sits over in Traverse City, Michigan on North Long Lake Road and makes a homey and smaller setting for about 20 residents, which means folks get to know each other and the staff pretty well, and you see a lot of familiar faces each day, which seems to help some people feel settled. The facility gives support for seniors from age 55 and up, with choices for assisted living, memory care, nursing care, independent living, and home care, and seniors can pick between private rooms, suites, studios, and shared homes with a live-in caregiver for more folks who need hands-on help. There's a 24-hour staff on hand, including nurses, and the place covers all sorts of care like bathing, dressing, transfers, help to the bathroom, spoon-feeding, care for incontinence, and diabetes management including insulin shots, which makes it pretty flexible. People living with dementia, memory issues, or even Parkinson's can find specialized care here, with staff who know how to help and offer activities to keep people moving and interacting.

    Meals come three times a day, chef-prepared and made to match diets like low sugar, low salt, allergy-friendly, and options for diabetics, and the dining room always has snacks out between meals, plus folks can ask for dining help if they need it. Joy Givers keeps things lively with a full schedule of events-bingo, card games, movie nights in the little theatre, gardening in the greenhouse, music, arts, and crafts in the arts room, and outings for groceries or appointments using their transportation service, so there's always a way to fill the day. If someone prefers a quiet moment, there's the reading room or little walks out in one of the courtyards or garden areas, and the common rooms and patios are places where residents gather, visit, and build connections, sometimes even running their own activity clubs.

    Safety's a focus, so rooms have pull cords, emergency buttons, and a 24-hour call system, plus wheelchair-accessible showers and private ADA-compliant bathrooms, and staff check in regularly, with health checkups and medication help arranged as needed. Laundry, cleaning, and housekeeping are part of the package, so residents can focus more on hobbies and being with friends. The facility offers extras like a beauty and barber shop, massage therapy, exercise equipment, a community kitchen, Wi-Fi and cable TV, and even tech classes for those who want to keep up with modern things.

    Joy Givers pays attention to mental well-being too, with support groups for residents and families and personalized care plans made with health care providers to adjust as people's needs change, so everyone's looked after whether they're there for the long run, short-term respite, or hospice care in their last days. The place allows outdoor smoking in designated areas, and parking is available for those who drive, and folks can use a special concierge service for extra requests or personal appointments. Payment options include private pay, insurance, veterans' benefits, and social security, and fees vary by care level, with help available to get customized quotes and tours. All in all, Joy Givers aims to set up daily life where older adults get the care they need, feel safe, and still have chances to be with others in a comfortable, friendly place.

    People often ask...

    Joy Givers offers competitive pricing, with rates starting at a cost of $3,232 per month.

    Joy Givers offers assisted living and board and care.

    The full address for this community is 7438 N Long Lake Rd, Traverse City, MI 49684.

    No, Joy Givers does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

    Safety & Compliance

    In Michigan, the Department of Licensing & Regulatory Affairs (LARA) licenses adult foster care homes and homes for the aged, conducting renewal inspections and complaint investigations and publishing the resulting reports.

    License numberAL280095116
    StatusActive
    Facility typeAdult Large Group Home (capacity 13-20)
    License classRegular
    Capacity20 residents
    LicenseeJoy Givers, Inc.
    Care servedAged
    EffectiveNovember 24th, 2024
    ExpiresNovember 23rd, 2026
    View the official license record

    Inspection Reports

    3

    Reports

    3

    Citations

    0

    Complaints

    2

    Years

    06 Jan 2026Investigation
    Identified safety concerns with snow blocking emergency exits and issues related to medication storage in resident rooms.
    • R 400.647Safety and maintenance of premises.
    • R 400.675Resident medications.
    15 Nov 2024Renewal
    Confirmed renewal after determining substantial compliance with licensing rules.
    21 May 2024Investigation
    Identified that a resident did not receive prescribed medications for about a week and a second resident continued to receive a discontinued medication for two days.
    • R 400.15310Resident health care

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