What care looks like in Smyrna.
A caregiver comes to her home in Smyrna 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.
Smyrna sits in Cobb County.
Coming home from hospital.
Smyrna has no emergency hospital of its own: Emory Smyrna Hospital closed at the end of December 2024. Families now come home from Kennestone in Marietta or Wellstar Cobb in Austell. Ridgeview Institute in Smyrna is a psychiatric hospital, not a medical one, which matters when someone is arranging a discharge by phone.
- Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center — 677 Church Street, Marietta · (770) 793-5000
- Wellstar Cobb Medical Center — 3950 Austell Road, Austell · (770) 732-4000
- Wellstar Cobb inpatient rehabilitation — 3950 Austell Road, Austell · (470) 732-4032
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.
Freeman Poole is the county senior centre in Smyrna itself. 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.
- Freeman Poole Senior Center, 4025 South Hurt Road · 770-801-3400
- Cobb Senior Services · 770-528-5355
- CobbLinc Paratransit reservations · (770) 427-2222
What makes Smyrna different to plan for.
With the local hospital closed and no MARTA rail in Cobb, both the discharge trip and the follow-up appointments start further from home than they used to. CobbLinc Paratransit charges $4.00, carries a personal care attendant free and takes no same-day bookings, so appointments need planning a day ahead.
Who lives here.
5,941 residents of Smyrna are 65 or older, 10.6% of the city. Figures are the American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates.