Daytona Beach Senior Advisor
What is Daytona Beach Senior Advisor?
Daytona Beach Senior Advisor is a free senior care referral and guidance service for families in Volusia and Flagler counties, Florida: the beachside cities from Palm Coast and Flagler Beach south through Ormond Beach, Daytona Beach and Port Orange to New Smyrna Beach and Edgewater, and the west side from DeLand to Deltona, Orange City and DeBary.
This site sets out Florida's rules, the published cost figures and every licensed facility on the state's own records; a local advisor then helps you shortlist. Facilities pay us a referral fee when a family moves in, which is why families pay nothing, and we would rather you read that here first than discover it later.
How much licensed senior care do Volusia and Flagler counties have?
The two counties had about 212,623 residents aged 65 or older on July 1, 2025 (Census Bureau estimates), and Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration licenses 105 assisted living facilities and 31 nursing homes between them; the Office of Insurance Regulation lists 2 continuing care providers, both on the Volusia west side.
| City | County | Licensed ALFs | ALF beds | Nursing homes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daytona Beach | Volusia | 12 | 589 | 10 |
| DeLand | Volusia | 10 | 666 | 7 |
| Palm Coast | Flagler | 18 | 835 | 1 |
| Ormond Beach | Volusia | 11 | 766 | 4 |
| Port Orange & Ponce Inlet | Volusia | 13 | 663 | 1 |
| Deltona | Volusia | 11 | 204 | 1 |
| New Smyrna Beach | Volusia | 11 | 377 | 1 |
| Orange City | Volusia | 7 | 400 | 1 |
| Holly Hill | Volusia | 5 | 137 | 1 |
| Edgewater & Oak Hill | Volusia | 3 | 115 | 0 |
| DeBary | Volusia | 2 | 104 | 2 |
| South Daytona | Volusia | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| Daytona Beach Shores | Volusia | 1 | 126 | 0 |
| Bunnell | Flagler | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 county population estimates by age (July 1, 2025). Licenses: AHCA, retrieved November 6, 2026.
How old is the population here compared with Florida?
Older than the state: 27.3% of Volusia residents and 33.3% of Flagler residents were 65 or older in 2025, against 22.8% statewide, and Flagler's median age of 54.2 is among the highest of any Florida county.
About 23,416 residents of the two counties were 85 or older. Flagler's 65-and-older population grew from 37,121 in 2020 to 46,785 in 2025, much of it in Palm Coast, and its licensed assisted living is still concentrated in a handful of Palm Coast buildings.
How does Florida license assisted living and memory care?
AHCA issues an assisted living license under Chapter 429, Part I, with optional add-ons for extended congregate care, limited nursing services and limited mental health; a separate memory care services license, created in 2026, takes effect once AHCA adopts its rules, which are due by June 1, 2027.
What does senior care cost in this part of Florida?
The closest published figures are CareScout's 2025 Florida medians: about $5,500 a month for assisted living, $10,342 for a shared nursing home room and about $32 an hour for home care; nobody publishes a Volusia, Flagler or memory care median.
Florida Medicaid can pay for assisted living services but never the rent and meals; see costs and paying for care.
Where should a family in Volusia or Flagler start?
Start from what just happened, not from a care type: a discharge from Halifax Health or an AdventHealth hospital, a fall at home, a dementia diagnosis, an exhausted spouse or a care budget running low each call for a different first step.
What we are, and what we are not
| Daytona Beach Senior Advisor is | Daytona Beach Senior Advisor is not | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost to families | Free; participating facilities pay a referral fee | A service that bills families |
| Where listings come from | AHCA, CMS and OIR records | Paid placements or scraped review sites |
| Ratings | CMS nursing home stars, credited to CMS | Scores we invented |
| Who we are | An independent referral service | ElderSource or any government office |
