Home care in mainland Ormond Beach

Our home care in Ormond Beach covers the mainland, ZIP 32174: downtown along Granada Boulevard, Tomoka Oaks and the neighborhoods between the river and I-95, Breakaway Trails and Hunter's Ridge to the west, and Halifax Plantation and Plantation Bay to the north. The beachside across the Halifax River, Ormond-by-the-Sea included, is ZIP 32176 and outside our area.

Plantation Bay and Hunter's Ridge both straddle the Flagler County line, so two neighbors with Ormond Beach addresses can live in different counties. Which side a house is on decides which senior services, buses and storm orders apply, so this page notes both.

For a parent living alone, hourly care covers meals, laundry and errands on the days you choose, and personal care helps with bathing and dressing once mornings have become a struggle. It all starts with a free in-home assessment and a written plan.

For most of mainland Ormond Beach, the hospitals are in Daytona Beach. AdventHealth Daytona Beach, on Memorial Medical Parkway, has an inpatient rehabilitation unit accredited for stroke rehabilitation.

Halifax Health Medical Center is on North Clyde Morris Boulevard, and Halifax Health also runs a freestanding emergency room at Hand Avenue and Williamson Boulevard, serving Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach. From Plantation Bay, AdventHealth Palm Coast, across the Flagler line, can be closer.

Whichever hospital it is, our hospital-to-home care puts a caregiver at the house on discharge day, picks up prescriptions on the way, cooks to the discharge instructions and gets your loved one to the first follow-up. After a stroke, the work carries on at home between therapy sessions, and mobility care keeps up the walking and the transfers from bed to chair that the therapists started.

The Council on Aging of Volusia County runs the Ormond Beach Senior Center at 351 Andrews Street, open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a neighborhood nutrition center in the same building; the center's number is (386) 672-4146. The Council also runs Meals on Wheels for homebound seniors; its main line is (386) 253-4700.

For rides, VoAccess, Volusia County's paratransit service, carries people whose disability keeps them off the regular bus, for $3.50 each way; approval can take up to 21 days. On the Flagler side, Flagler County Public Transportation doesn't leave the county, so it won't take someone from Hunter's Ridge to a doctor in Daytona Beach. Our caregivers drive, wait through the appointment and bring notes home.

A weekly trip to Andrews Street is the kind of routine companion care keeps going. On the days in between, Alzheimer's and dementia care at home holds the same rhythm.

On the Ormond mainland, much of the storm flooding rises from the river and creeks. During Hurricane Ian in 2022, city officials reported flooding on Fleming Avenue, Wilmette Avenue and in Tomoka Oaks, the worst of it around the Performing Arts Center hours after the storm, when the next high tide came in from Strickland Creek. West of I-95, Hunter's Ridge and Breakaway Trails flooded too.

Volusia County asks residents with physical, mental or sensory disabilities, and anyone on oxygen, to register ahead for its special needs shelters at (386) 258-4088. They aren't for people who need 24-hour dedicated care, a hospital bed or ventilator, and anyone who needs a caregiver's help should bring one. During a declared evacuation, Votran gives free rides to public shelters, and every stop becomes an assembly point. On the Flagler side, register with Flagler County Emergency Management at (386) 313-4200.

As Ian showed, the worst water can arrive after the storm, with the tide, just when a parent alone might step out to check on the car. 24-hour care keeps a caregiver with your loved one through the storm and the day after it, and when the worry is one night with the power out, overnight care keeps someone awake. North into Flagler County, see home care in Palm Coast.

From an older house near downtown to a newer one out in Hunter's Ridge, the work of running a household does not slow down when a parent does. A caregiver stocks the pantry, wipes down the counters, makes a lunch your loved one actually wants to eat and helps with bathing at an unhurried pace. Clean towels and a made bed go a long way.

Getting out matters as much as the chores. A caregiver can drive to the pharmacy and the bank, keep the follow-up visits on the calendar and, on a cooler morning, take your dad to the Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, where the garden paths are easy going for someone with a cane or a walker.

Once the first weeks after a hospital stay have passed, the aim shifts back to a normal life, with Sunday services, lunch with old friends and the grandchildren on a video call. Home care in Ormond Beach keeps those things on the calendar through companion care, and our Ponte Vedra office lets you know how each week is going.