Dayton Senior AdvisorWhat usually starts a senior care search in Dayton?
A discharge from Miami Valley Hospital, a Kettering Health campus or the Dayton VA, a fall, a dementia diagnosis, a family caregiver reaching the end of their rope, or savings running low are the moments that bring most families to us.
Each guide below begins at that moment and lists the steps in order, with the Ohio rules and Miami Valley phone numbers that apply.
Who can help us work out the next step for free?
The Area Agency on Aging, PSA 2 (1-800-258-7277) gives free information and referral and does PASSPORT and Assisted Living Waiver assessments in all six counties, and a senior advisor can walk through licensed options; neither charges families.
If anyone is in danger, call 911. Suspected abuse or neglect of an older adult at home goes to county Adult Protective Services (Montgomery County (937) 225-4906; statewide 1-855-644-6277).
What if our situation is not here?
Start with what help is needed and when: list the daily tasks your parent can no longer do safely, note whether help is needed at night, and estimate what the budget can sustain for two or three years.
Those three answers usually narrow the choice to one or two Ohio license types, and the directory then shows which licensed providers are near you.
Situations: every guide
When a parent is being discharged from a Dayton hospital
Next steps when a parent is discharged from Miami Valley Hospital, a Kettering Health campus, Soin, Upper Valley or Springfield Regional: admission status, rehab choices, home health, and when assisted living makes sense.
Open the guide →When living alone stops being safe
Signs an older parent can no longer live alone safely, home safety changes, PASSPORT and other help at home in Montgomery, Greene, Miami, Clark, Darke and Preble counties, and when to consider assisted living.
Open the guide →After a dementia diagnosis: a plan for Dayton families
Next steps after a dementia diagnosis for Miami Valley families: legal documents, safety, support, how memory care is regulated in Ohio, and choosing a special care unit near Dayton.
Open the guide →When the family caregiver cannot keep going
Help for exhausted family caregivers in Dayton and the Miami Valley: respite, adult day, PASSPORT Structured Family Caregiving, caregiver support from the Area Agency on Aging, and when to consider a move.
Open the guide →When a parent's savings start running out
What Dayton-area families can do when savings for assisted living or nursing home care are running low: the Assisted Living Waiver, Ohio Medicaid, VA pension, PASSPORT and planning the timing.
Open the guide →Caring for a Miami Valley parent from far away
A guide for adult children who live far from a parent in Dayton, Springfield, Troy or the rest of the Miami Valley: local contacts, documents, checking facilities remotely and planning visits.
Open the guide →After a fall: what Dayton families should do next
What to do after an older parent falls in the Dayton area: medical evaluation, Medicare rehab and home health, fall prevention, PASSPORT and when assisted living is the safer choice.
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