In-Home Care for Mainland Ormond Beach, Plantation Bay and Hunter's Ridge

Hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, and on the Ormond Beach mainland much of the flooding comes up from the rivers and creeks. During Hurricane Ian in September 2022, the city’s public works director estimated that 15 to 20 percent of Ormond Beach streets had some flooding, mostly from high tides and high river and creek levels. Fleming Avenue, Wilmette Avenue and Tomoka Oaks flooded; the neighborhoods around the Ormond Beach Performing Arts Center took their worst water about 12 hours after the storm, when the next high tide came in from Strickland Creek; and west of I-95, Hunter’s Ridge and Breakaway Trails flooded too. The city’s preliminary count found fewer than 20 homes with water inside, and the director said “the immediate problem was the impassibility of the roads.” In October 2024, Hurricane Milton sent the lake at the Willow Pond 55+ apartments over Wilmette Avenue and left residents there without power, and one of the two storm-related deaths the city reported was a resident in respiratory distress whom first responders could not reach at the height of the storm, because the wind made it unsafe to try.

South of the Flagler County line, evacuations are ordered in three levels, A, BC and DE, according to the flooding expected, and residents of low-lying, flood-prone areas, including homes along river basins, are also told to leave; anyone in a mobile home must go at every level. Check your parent’s address on the interactive evacuation zone map from local emergency management, or, for the Flagler side of Hunter’s Ridge and Plantation Bay, on Flagler County’s potential hurricane evacuation zone map. Residents who need oxygen or have a physical, mental or sensory disability can register ahead for a special needs shelter, but those shelters are not for anyone who needs 24-hour dedicated care, a hospital bed or a ventilator, and a caregiver is expected to come along when that help is normally needed; Flagler residents register with Flagler County Emergency Management instead. During a declared evacuation, VoTran carries people to public shelters for free, and every bus stop becomes an assembly point. All of it is easier to settle in June than when a storm is in the forecast. With live-in care, someone is already in the house when a watch is posted, gathering medications and chargers, keeping meals and routines steady and helping your parent leave early if the order comes. When the worry is a night with the power out and the roads under water, overnight care puts someone awake in the house.

The Ormond Beach Senior Center, at 351 Andrews Street between Melrose and Wilmette Avenues just east of US 1, is open weekdays for cards, board games, bingo, dance, arts and crafts, movies and exercise, serves a weekday lunch for qualified seniors, and is the base for Ormond Beach Meals on Wheels. The council on aging that runs it also holds a monthly caregiver support group, and its own in-home help is free or carries a modest co-payment for seniors who qualify, as donations and grant funds allow. On the Flagler side, Flagler County Senior Services serves residents over 60. ElderSource, the state-designated Area Agency on Aging for both sides of the line, answers its HelpLine at 1-888-242-4464 on weekdays. A standing weekly trip to Andrews Street is the kind of routine companion care keeps going, and on the days in between, Alzheimer’s and dementia care at home holds the same rhythm.

Getting anywhere without a car depends on which side of the Flagler County line a house is on. VoTran’s VoRide vans serve Ormond Beach north of Granada Boulevard on demand, at $1 for riders 65 and older on trips up to five miles, but the service is curb to curb. For door-to-door help, VoAccess, formerly Votran Gold, serves people whose disability keeps them off the fixed-route bus: approval can take up to 21 days, a physician completes part of the application, and rides are booked at least a day ahead at $3.50 each way. Flagler County Public Transportation runs door-to-door rides for residents who apply and qualify, older adults among them, booked four to five days ahead, but it offers no trips out of the county, so it will not take someone from Hunter’s Ridge to a doctor in Daytona Beach. Our caregivers drive, wait through the appointment and bring notes home to the family. When an illness turns toward comfort care, Halifax Health’s Hospice Care Center at 235 Booth Road, built with artifacts from the historic Ormond Hotel, is staffed around the clock and also offers short respite stays; at home, our palliative care support adds non-medical help alongside the hospice or palliative team. Farther into Flagler County, see home care in Bunnell, or find all 28 ZIP codes on our service areas page.