Residential-like senior citizen complex is planned on 90-acre site on
Schindler property on West Side Saginaw Road.

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90 Acre Apartment Style Senior Citizen Complex
Planned in Frankenlust

Nursing Care To Be Provided On Site in Tri-City Area's Largest Such Project

January 20, 2005
By: Dave Rogers

      Health care will be available on site 24-hours a day at the planned Caretel Inns complex on West Side Saginaw Road, developers told the Frankenlust Township Planning Commission this week.

      Township planners stamped the project "approved" and sent it on to the township board after hearing from Horace D'Angelo Jr., president of Caretel Inns of Royal Oak.

      "This is elder care with the comforts of home," said Mr. D'Angelo, noting that his firm's development in St. Joseph, Michigan, has received the coveted da Vinci Award of the Engineering Society of Detroit and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

      "The Bay City complex will be very similar to the one in St. Joe," said Mr. D'Angelo, noting that it will provide three types of elder care facilities:

Nursing Care Inn;

Assisted Living Inn;

Memory Care Inn.

      Besides the inns, the complex will feature apartments in cottage-style buildings for rent and condominiums for sale on the same site.

      "People can find housing that works best for them and they don't even have to live there to receive health care on site," said D'Angelo, adding: "Nurses will be available to vist people living in the site condos."

      Caretel Inns have been praised by health officials in St. Joe for their "beautifully decorated, user-friendly, almost hotel-like atmosphere."

      The Royal Oak firm has employed architects, interior designersand operators to overcome what D'Angelo calls "design flaws" in most elder care facilities. the award cited Caretel for its "breakthrough building design which allows for superior handicapped accessibility and individual empowerment."

      While most senior centers feature "down the hall" bathing, Caretel boasts "free access bathing" in the resident's own room.

      Other design innovations cited by the organizations that gave the daVinci awards were rooms with large view windows and window seats, individual heating and cooling, an enclosed courtyard, rock gardens, gazebos, ice cream parlors and private dining rooms, "all of which serve to de-institutionalize the environment," said D'Angelo.

      "Our inns resemble charming bed and breakfast hotels," he said.

      For more information contact Caretel Inns, 248-543-7300.

Schindler's Farm Market site on West Side Saginaw Road is planned site of Caretel Inns elder care complex.