Can hospice come to my dad’s assisted living or memory care in metro Detroit?
Written and reviewed by the Lily Hospice clinical team. Reviewed September 2026.
Yes. Hospice comes to wherever your dad lives, and assisted living and memory care count. Medicare pays for the hospice care; the facility keeps providing his room, meals and daily help; and the hospice team adds nurse visits, aide visits, equipment, medications and 24-hour on-call support in his own apartment. Lily Hospice in Troy serves residents in facilities across Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties; about seven in ten of the patients we care for live in assisted living, memory care or a nursing facility. Call (248) 955-5100 and ask whether we serve your dad’s building; the answer is almost always yes.
What changes, and what doesn’t
What stays the same: his apartment, his caregivers, his routine, his room-and-board bill. What is added, at no cost under Medicare: a hospice nurse who visits regularly and is on call around the clock, a hospice aide for bathing and personal care, a social worker and chaplain for him and for you, a hospital bed, oxygen and other equipment delivered to his room, comfort medications delivered to the facility, and a physician overseeing the plan of care with the facility’s own team.
How hospice and the facility work together
The facility remains his home and its staff remain his daily caregivers. Our nurse writes the plan of care with the facility nurse, our aide schedules around the facility’s routine, and we train facility staff on comfort measures for his condition. Families usually notice two things first: the phone calls to them get calmer, and the 2 a.m. emergencies get handled in the building instead of in an ambulance.
Memory care specifically
Dementia is the most common diagnosis among our facility patients. Our dementia hospice page covers eligibility, the signs that it may be time, and how we manage agitation, swallowing changes and infections in place, so residents are not sent to the hospital for care that can be given in their room.
The questions to ask any hospice
Do you currently serve this building? How often will a nurse visit, and who covers nights and weekends? Will the same aide come each time? How do you communicate with facility staff and with me? What happens if he needs more care than the facility can give? A good hospice answers all five without hesitating.
Where we serve facilities
Rochester Hills, Troy, Sterling Heights, Royal Oak, Southfield and throughout Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties. Facility staff can send a referral through our professional referral page.
Questions? Call (248) 955-5100. A real person answers 24 hours a day. Hospice isn’t giving up. It’s showing up.