In-Home Care for Nocatee Families, From Our Office at Town Center

Much of the care an older adult needs is inside Nocatee itself. Baptist HealthPlace at Nocatee, at 400 Colonnade Drive off Nocatee Parkway, houses Baptist Primary Care, which lists geriatrics among its services, and Brooks Outpatient, which offers geriatric rehabilitation and balance and vestibular therapy. The Baptist AgeWell Center for Health at 98 Nocatee Village Drive is built around older patients, with geriatric assessment, care coordination, medication management, senior rehabilitation and memory disorder care. UF Health Nocatee, open since January 2021 at 351 Town Plaza Avenue, adds primary care, orthopaedics, imaging, labs, heart and vascular care and neurology.

Doctors nearby help only if someone can get your parent there, sit through the visit and remember what was said. Our caregivers drive to the appointment, wait, take notes for the family, pick up the prescription on the way home and tell you how it went. When a visit at AgeWell or UF Health ends with a memory diagnosis, Alzheimer’s and dementia care keeps the day predictable at home, and for a parent seeing a neurologist about Parkinson’s, Parkinson’s care builds the day around medication reminders and the hours when moving is hardest. For a parent who no longer drives, a caregiver can make the weekly trip to the Council on Aging’s THE PLAYERS Community Senior Center on Landrum Lane in Ponte Vedra Beach.

From Town Center, Ascension St. Vincent’s St. Johns County, at 205 Trinity Way where I-95 meets County Road 210, is about 14 minutes’ drive in light traffic. It opened in July 2022 and is a Primary Stroke Center with a 24-hour emergency room. Baptist Medical Center South, a 381-bed hospital on Old St. Augustine Road at I-95, is about 16 minutes away, and Mayo Clinic in Florida, on San Pablo Road South, about 27; Florida law establishes one of the state’s memory disorder clinics at Mayo’s Jacksonville campus. Whichever one your parent comes home from, hospital-to-home care starts on discharge day, with someone in the house the first nights, meals ready, follow-up visits on the calendar and a ride to each. When living alone is no longer realistic, live-in care keeps a caregiver in the home around the clock.

Getting to all of it takes a car. None of the county’s Sunshine Bus fixed routes reach Nocatee, though the Council on Aging runs on-demand rides for people over 60 and for residents who qualify as transportation-disadvantaged. Senior living is growing here as well: Starling at Nocatee, across from Splash Waterpark, offers independent living, assisted living, memory care and respite stays. In-home care is how a parent stays in their own house instead. In storm season, the county’s evacuation route for Nocatee and Palm Valley runs southwest to County Road 210 and on to I-95. Being inland does not by itself put a house outside an evacuation zone, so check your parent’s address on St. Johns County’s evacuation information page or, on the Duval side, the City of Jacksonville’s JaxReady site.

We also serve the ZIP codes next door: Ponte Vedra Beach and Sawgrass to the east, St. Johns and Julington Creek to the west along County Road 210, Jacksonville’s 32224 and 32256 to the north, and St. Augustine, whose ZIP 32095 borders 32081 to the south. In all, the office covers 28 ZIP codes, from Atlantic Beach south to Ormond Beach and Pierson and west across the St. Johns River to Fleming Island; find yours on our Ponte Vedra service areas page.