Home care in Elkton, Armstrong and Spuds

ZIP 32033 is rural southwest St. Johns County, none of it incorporated. Elkton sits where State Road 207 crosses County Road 305 on the way from St. Augustine to Hastings, and with Armstrong and Spuds it was once part of Florida's potato belt. It's still farm country, and we provide home care in Elkton, Armstrong and Spuds alike.

Out here, the worry for a parent living alone is distance. A fall at the end of a long driveway can go unnoticed for hours. Companion care puts a caregiver in the house on a set schedule, for conversation, a meal, the trip to the store and a second pair of eyes. Hourly care adds bathing, laundry and the heavier housework on the days they're needed.

We keep you informed between visits, and someone answers our phone day and night, so you always have a person to ask about your loved one.

The nearest full hospital is UF Health Flagler Hospital, on Health Park Boulevard in St. Augustine.

After an emergency comes a run of trips into town: the follow-up, the lab work, therapy, the pharmacy. Hospital-to-home care starts on discharge day, with prescriptions picked up in St. Augustine on the way out and a caregiver in the house the first nights. Personal care helps with bathing and dressing while your loved one is unsteady, and mobility care covers the porch steps and getting in and out of the car.

For primary care closer to home, Aza Health runs a community health center at 201 West Lattin Street in Hastings, open Monday through Thursday, which accepts Medicaid and most insurance and offers a sliding fee to patients who qualify.

The Sunshine Bus's Teal Line runs along State Road 207 between Hastings and St. Augustine, stopping at County Road 305 in Elkton and at Flagler Hospital. For a parent who lives miles down a county road, the Council on Aging's door-to-door paratransit serves riders over 60 and people who qualify as transportation disadvantaged; reservations are taken at (904) 209-3710 on weekdays until 4 p.m.

The Council's Hastings Senior Center, at the Al Wilke Community Center on South Main Street, is the closest, open Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings with lunch at 11:30, and it offers rides from within a set radius. A caregiver can have your parent dressed, fed and at the door when the van comes, or skip the van and drive. See home care in Hastings for the town next door.

When Hurricane Milton crossed the state in October 2024, heavy rain flooded parts of Hastings and Flagler Estates and sent Deep Creek in Spuds to a record high. Check your parent's address on the county's evacuation zone map rather than assuming an inland house is outside every zone.

If your loved one depends on oxygen or powered medical equipment, register them for the county's Special Medical Needs Shelter through the Citizen Information Hotline at (904) 824-5550; the same line arranges a ride to a shelter. A caregiver has to come along, and the shelter can't support hospital beds, dialysis, ventilators, tracheostomy care or Hoyer lifts.

On a road that floods, the decision to leave has to be made early. A caregiver on 24-hour care can pack the medications and papers and drive your parent out while the roads are still clear. When falling trees take the power down, a few hourly care shifts afterward put someone in the house to clear out the refrigerator and make sure your parent is eating. Toward the city, see home care in St. Augustine.

In farm country, plenty of older adults still want to keep up the house the way they always have, from the garden out back to a spotless kitchen. A caregiver can do the heavier part, like mopping, changing the sheets and carrying the laundry, while your loved one does the part they enjoy, so the house still feels like theirs.

When every errand starts with the drive into St. Augustine, our caregivers bundle the shopping, the pharmacy and the doctor into one trip and stay throughout. If an illness has left your mom tired, they plan the outing around her energy, with a rest at home before supper, and over the first weeks the trips get easier.

Elderly care in Elkton is also good company, whether it's coffee at the kitchen table or a long phone call with a sister who moved away years ago. A real person at our Ponte Vedra office answers day and night when you want to check in. If you'd like another layer of reassurance, 24/7 Virtual Care can cover the quiet hours with discreet sensors in the main rooms, no cameras anywhere, flagging anything unusual for our team.