What care looks like in Decatur.
A caregiver comes to her home in Decatur and helps with the part of the day that has become hard: bathing and dressing, meals, medication reminders, laundry and the errands she would rather not do alone. Some families start with a few hours a week for company or respite, some need overnight or 24-hour cover, and some need help the week a parent comes home from hospital. We will tell you plainly what we can staff for her address and when we could start, before you agree to anything.
Decatur sits in DeKalb County.
Coming home from hospital.
Emory Decatur runs its own inpatient rehabilitation unit, so a Decatur discharge can move to rehab and home without leaving the city. If Mom is a veteran, the Atlanta VA Medical Center is here too, and its social workers can arrange VA homemaker and home health aide care.
- Emory Decatur Hospital — 2701 North Decatur Road, Decatur 30033 · (404) 501-1000
- Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center — 1670 Clairmont Road, Decatur 30033 · (404) 321-6111
- Emory Long Term Acute Care — 450 North Candler Street, Decatur · (404) 377-0221
We are not affiliated with any of them. We list them because the discharge week is when most families call us, and because knowing which building she is coming home from changes what the first three days need to look like.
Local help worth knowing about.
The county’s aging office is in Decatur itself, which makes it the easiest of the ten areas to get an assessment started in person. The Area Agency on Aging for metro Atlanta is empowerline, on (404) 463-3333 — it is also the front door for Georgia’s Medicaid waiver assessments, and it is free to call whether or not you ever use us.
- DeKalb County Office of Aging, 1300 Commerce Drive, Decatur · 770-322-2950
- Central DeKalb Senior Center, 1346 McConnell Drive · 770-492-5461
- DeKalb Office of Aging transport division · 770-322-2967
What makes Decatur different to plan for.
Decatur is a small city with an older population than the county around it, and a good share of its homes are in larger buildings, so parking and access vary street by street.
Who lives here.
3,574 residents of Decatur are 65 or older, 14.6% of the city, against 13.3% across DeKalb County. Figures are the American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates.