In-Home Care for Atlantic Beach and Mayport

Fleet Landing, at One Fleet Landing Boulevard inside the Atlantic Beach city limits, is a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community with a Navy history. It was founded by a group of military officers in 1985, its corporate name is still the Naval Continuing Care Retirement Foundation, and the Atlantic Beach campus was developed in 1990. It offers independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing and rehabilitation, and its nursing center has 100 beds. When it decided in 2020 to build a second campus in Nocatee, Fleet Landing said more than 400 families were waiting to join the Atlantic Beach community. For a parent on a list like that, or one who has decided to stay in the house, care at home covers the time in between, or takes the place of the move altogether. Outside Fleet Landing, the City of Atlantic Beach holds classes at the Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Boulevard: its October 2026 calendar lists Tai Chi on Tuesday mornings and Thursday afternoons, with the Thursday class free and described by the city as helping to prevent falls, and free chair yoga on Tuesday afternoons. A short drive south, the Neptune Beach Senior Activity Center on Forest Avenue serves people 55 and older from across the Beaches; see home care in Neptune Beach.

Getting to any of it takes a ride. JTA’s ReadiRide has a Beaches Zone that runs from Mayport down through Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach and Jacksonville Beach, and west as far as Mayo Clinic. A trip has to start and end inside the zone, fares start at $2.00, and rides are booked by phone at (904) 265-6999 at least two hours ahead. JTA’s Connexion offers shared door-to-door rides anywhere in Duval County to people with disabilities who cannot use a regular bus and who qualify under the Americans with Disabilities Act or the Transportation Disadvantaged program. For public programs and caregiver support, the place to start is the HelpLine of ElderSource, the Area Agency on Aging for Northeast Florida, Duval County included, at 1-888-242-4464. For a parent who would rather not arrange a shuttle, companion care is a caregiver who drives them to Tai Chi, the pharmacy and lunch out, and stays for the visit. For a parent with memory loss, Alzheimer’s and dementia care keeps those outings, and the days at home, on a steady routine.

Hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, and Duval County’s evacuation map divides 32233. Parts of the ZIP, Mayport among them, are in Zone A, the most vulnerable areas and the first to be evacuated; others, including the blocks around City Hall on Seminole Road and the Fleet Landing campus, are in Zone B. At the beaches the line matters less than it looks. The City of Jacksonville Beach’s hurricane guide explains that because the beach communities sit on a barrier island, both zones evacuate when an order is issued, that the order can come up to 96 hours before landfall, and that the Sheriff’s Office closes the bridges once winds on them reach 39 mph. The county routes Beaches residents west on Atlantic Boulevard, Beach Boulevard or J. Turner Butler Boulevard. For anyone who cannot drive out, JTA runs free Evacuation Shuttle buses to open public shelters, and one of its four designated pick-up points is Mayport Middle School, at 2600 Mayport Road. Zones are assigned address by address, so look up your parent’s on the City of Jacksonville’s evacuation zone search rather than going by the neighborhood.

Anyone who depends on electricity for life-supporting equipment or on oxygen, or who may need basic help from medical professionals, can sign up for the City of Jacksonville’s Special Medical Needs Registry online or at (904) 255-3172. Registration has to be renewed every year, a caregiver or family member must go along to the shelter, and the shelters are a last resort, offering basic nursing assistance, first aid, food and water. After a mandatory evacuation, the City of Atlantic Beach no longer issues re-entry passes; residents get back in by showing a Florida ID with an Atlantic Beach address, or a utility bill or tax receipt along with a state ID, so those belong in the bag that leaves with your parent. With live-in care, someone is already in the house when a watch is posted, packing medications, chargers and those documents, and making it possible to leave early instead of racing the bridge closures. For families who live out of town, extra hourly care shifts before a storm and after re-entry mean someone checks the house, the refrigerator and the medications, and makes sure your parent is eating. Farther down the coast, see home care in Jacksonville Beach, or find every town we serve on our Ponte Vedra service areas page.