Home care in St. Johns, Fruit Cove and Julington Creek

ZIP 32259 is the northwest corner of St. Johns County, between the St. Johns River and I-95: Switzerland and Fruit Cove along State Road 13, Julington Creek Plantation off Race Track Road, Durbin Park toward the interstate and RiverTown down by the river. The addresses may say Jacksonville or St. Johns, but nearly all of it is unincorporated St. Johns County. Post office boxes use 32260, and our home care in St. Johns covers those too.

If you're caring for a parent here and commuting to Jacksonville, your day runs from before seven until after five, and a parent at home alone spends most of it waiting. Hourly care fills those hours with a caregiver who makes lunch, gives medication reminders, does the laundry, takes a walk with your loved one if the weather's good and lets you know at the end of the day how it went.

When nights are the worry, with a parent up and wandering or unsteady on the way to the bathroom, overnight care keeps a caregiver awake so the family can sleep before the next workday.

Ascension St. Vincent's St. Johns County, on Trinity Way where County Road 210 meets I-95, is a full hospital with a 24-hour emergency room and is certified as a Primary Stroke Center. HCA Florida Julington Creek Emergency, at 42 Doctors Village Drive, is a 24-hour ER run as an extension of HCA Florida Memorial Hospital. Baptist Medical Center South is a short drive north on I-95.

Discharge tends to come mid-afternoon on a workday, with little warning and you still downtown. Call us, and hospital-to-home care sends a caregiver to bring your loved one home, stop at the pharmacy on the way and stay until you're back from the office. Mobility care keeps up the exercises a therapist assigns, and for a parent with Parkinson's, Parkinson's care schedules walks and bathing for the hours when moving comes easiest.

The Council on Aging's Trout Creek Senior Center, at 6795 Collier Road just south of the ZIP, is open to residents over 60 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., with lunch, fitness classes, games and talks. It takes transportation requests from people who can't drive, and the Council's door-to-door paratransit, at (904) 209-3710, also carries riders over 60.

Companion care turns a center like that into a weekly habit, and keeps your parent company on the other days. RiverTown's WaterSong neighborhood is built for buyers 55 and older, and Westminster Woods on Julington Creek, at 25 State Road 13, is a continuing care retirement community. If your family is weighing a move, care at home keeps your loved one settled while you decide.

The St. Johns River gives this ZIP its views and its flood risk. St. Johns County puts the lowest ground near the river and Julington Creek in Zone A and marks Zone F along the river as vulnerable to flooding, while much of the inland ZIP is in no zone at all.

Look up your parent's address with the county's evacuation zone tool. From State Road 13 north of County Road 210, the county routes traffic east on CR 210 or Greenbriar Road to I-95, north on SR 13 into Duval County, or east on Race Track Road.

For a parent who can't drive, St. Johns County's evacuation assistance takes registered residents to a shelter. Register ahead of hurricane season, online or through the Citizen Information Hotline at (904) 824-5550. If you'll be stuck at work when the order comes, 24-hour care means a caregiver is already with your loved one, with the bag packed and the medications in it.

Close to our office

Our office is across the county at Nocatee Town Center, and the free assessment happens at your parent's house, so the river never stands between you and us. For our office's own neighborhood, see home care in Nocatee.

If your parent has moved into your house, perhaps into a guest room on the first floor, the weekday hours while everyone is at work or school can feel long. A caregiver turns that time into a real day, with a shower and fresh clothes, a lunch eaten sitting down, a little tidying of your parent's room and good conversation.

Appointments and outings can fit around your schedule. After the doctor and the pharmacy, a caregiver can stop at the Bartram Trail Branch Library so your loved one can pick out a book or sit in on a program, and still be home before the school bus.

After a hospital stay, a few weeks of steady help at home lets your parent rebuild strength without you using up your vacation days. Senior care in St. Johns also gives your loved one a life beyond your household, with rides to church and lunches with friends, while our Ponte Vedra office keeps you informed about each visit.