Pricing ranges from
    $3,945 – 4,734/month

    Waterford Oaks Senior Care East

    3385 Pontiac Lake Rd, Waterford, MI 48328
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care

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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

    4.58·(19)

    Overall rating

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

      4.4
    • Staff

      4.6
    • Meals

      3.9
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, attentive staff
    • Personalized care in a small, home-like setting
    • Approachable staff and collaborative family communication
    • Supportive care for memory-care and hospice residents
    • Clean, well-maintained rooms and common areas
    • Spacious private rooms with pleasant views
    • Positive food experiences, including home-cooked and healthy meals
    • Bingo, crafts, music, brain activities, and celebrations
    • Laundry and linen care provided
    • Convenient location for nearby family

    Cons

    • Medication-administration timing concerns
    • Limited activity frequency and variety, particularly in memory care
    • Inconsistent meal quality and dinner-menu variety
    • Staff turnover and staffing-structure concerns
    • Limited shared-space capacity in the small building

    Summary of reviews

    Families commonly describe Waterford Oaks as a small, personal setting where staff are kind, attentive, and willing to communicate with relatives. Several accounts praise the team’s responsiveness and collaborative approach, including support for residents with substantial care needs and those receiving hospice care. One family, however, raised concerns about medication timing, and another described turnover and staffing organization as areas of concern. These accounts suggest that experiences with care coordination may vary.

    Dining feedback is mixed. Some families describe meals as good, healthy, or home-cooked, while one family was dissatisfied with dinner quality and menu variety. Activity offerings include bingo, crafts, music, brain activities, and birthday celebrations. The amount and range of programming appear variable: some accounts describe activities during the week or on the calendar, while others found them infrequent or limited, particularly for residents in memory care. One family also raised a concern about outdoor access for its relative.

    The building is consistently described as clean and well maintained, with a home-like atmosphere. Private rooms are described as comfortable and spacious, though the small scale has limits: one account noted that the shared living room could not accommodate all residents at once. The smaller, privately owned setting is a meaningful draw for families seeking personal attention, but its size may constrain communal space and programming. Location is also a practical advantage for nearby relatives. Overall, reviews lean positive about staff warmth, cleanliness, and individualized care, while highlighting medication timing, activity provision, meal consistency, and staffing stability as areas families may wish to discuss directly with the facility.

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    Location

    Waterford Oaks Senior Care East is located at 3385 Pontiac Lake Rd, Waterford, MI, 48328.

    About Waterford Oaks Senior Care East

    Waterford Oaks Senior Care East in Waterford, Michigan, sits on Pontiac Lake Road and runs as an adult family home, focusing on providing care for seniors in a cozy, homelike setting, and the community feels pretty small, which means folks living there usually get personal attention from caregivers who know them well and check in often during the day and night, especially for those with memory needs like Alzheimer's or dementia, since they've got door alarms and monitoring to help residents stay safe and cared for, plus staff trained to handle changes that come with aging, memory loss, or different medical issues. The facility keeps a 24-hour call system and offers supervision around the clock, and they've got a pretty tight staff-to-resident ratio, higher than what Michigan requires, which gives more eyes and hands on each person whether someone just needs a bit of help fixing meals, managing medicine, or more constant support with bathing, dressing, or moving around the home, and folks who need diabetic, incontinence, or non-ambulatory care can get it there too.

    The living spaces come furnished with what you'd expect in a comfortable house-like cable TV, kitchenettes, and shared dining rooms where three chef-prepared meals are served each day, and these meals focus on good nutrition and being tasty at the same time. Common indoor areas and gardens keep people socially active with crafts, music, games, resident-planned activities, or just some time spent outside, and those who want it can take part in religious or offsite community events. Seniors who choose independent living here can get help as needed, and the same goes for folks who might have health changes that call for more support, with help there to adjust care plans so people can stay in familiar surroundings.

    Waterford Oaks Senior Care East takes caring for both short-term respite guests and long-term residents seriously, paying attention to comfort, safety, and emotional well-being, and the owner's onsite every day taking a close look at the running of things, so there's a feeling of stability. People's reviews often mention the friendly atmosphere and staff passion, and over the years the place has picked up awards for the way staff work with residents and the range of activities offered. With ongoing daily services like laundry, housekeeping, and rides to medical appointments, plus mental wellness checks and medication management, folks living here can have a mix of independence and help as they need it, and with room for around 20 residents, it stays small enough for staff to always know who needs what. The facility keeps a Facebook presence and has a website with more information for anyone wanting to take a closer look at what life's like for seniors in this setting.

    People often ask...

    Waterford Oaks Senior Care East offers competitive pricing, with rates starting at a cost of $3,945 per month.

    Waterford Oaks Senior Care East offers assisted living, memory care, and board and care.

    There are 21 photos of Waterford Oaks Senior Care East on Mirador.

    The full address for this community is 3385 Pontiac Lake Rd, Waterford, MI 48328.

    No, Waterford Oaks Senior Care East 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 numberAL630284310
    StatusActive
    Facility typeAdult Large Group Home (capacity 13-20)
    License classRegular
    Capacity20 residents
    LicenseeWaterford Oaks Senior Care Inc.
    Care servedAged
    EffectiveMay 6th, 2026
    ExpiresMay 5th, 2028
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    Inspection Reports

    5

    Reports

    3

    Citations

    0

    Complaints

    19

    Years

    19 May 2026Renewal
    Identified substantial compliance with applicable licensing statutes and rules.
    13 Dec 2025Investigation
    Identified safety and supervision failures after a resident wandered away and was found in a ditch, with staff inattentive and not responding to door alarms.
    • R 400.15204Direct care staff; qualifications and training
    • R 400.15305Resident protection
    06 Dec 2024Investigation
    Identified insufficient staffing on the midnight shift to safely transfer residents, with reliance on help from staff at a nearby facility.
    • R 400.15206Staffing requirements
    29 Jun 2024Renewal
    Determined substantial compliance with applicable rules and requirements; license renewal issued.
    22 Nov 2007Initial
    Determined substantial compliance with licensing rules and issued a temporary license with a maximum capacity of 20.

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