What care looks like in Dunwoody.
A caregiver comes to her home in Dunwoody 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.
Dunwoody sits in DeKalb County.
Coming home from hospital.
There is no hospital inside Dunwoody, so families come home from the Perimeter cluster next door, or from Emory Decatur and its rehabilitation unit.
- Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital — 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Atlanta 30342 · (678) 843-7001
- Northside Hospital Atlanta — 1000 Johnson Ferry Road NE, Atlanta 30342 · (404) 851-8000
- Emory Decatur Hospital — 2701 North Decatur Road, Decatur · (404) 501-1000
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.
DeKalb publishes no senior centre inside Dunwoody; North DeKalb in Chamblee is the nearest. The county does run homemaker help, personal care, respite and rides to medical appointments. 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
- DeKalb Office of Aging transport division · 770-322-2967
- North DeKalb Senior Center, 3393 Malone Drive, Chamblee · 404-298-4461
What makes Dunwoody different to plan for.
A third of homes in Dunwoody are in buildings of 20 or more units, and the city sits inside the Perimeter interchange works, so we agree arrival windows rather than exact minutes. The Spruill Center for the Arts on Chamblee Dunwoody Road runs daytime classes and includes older adults in its outreach, which is often a better first step than a care plan.
Who lives here.
7,109 residents of Dunwoody are 65 or older, 13.8% of the city. Figures are the American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates.