Assisted living and memory care near Floral City

Floral City sits in the southeast corner of Citrus County, about six miles south of Inverness on US 41, with the Tsala Apopka chain of lakes spreading out to the east. Orange Avenue is the street people picture when they hear the name. Old live oaks line both sides and arch over the road, so the shade holds even in the middle of a July afternoon, and the low storefronts and porches sit back behind them. The paved Withlacoochee State Trail crosses the town, and December still brings Heritage Days and the luminaries along Orange Avenue.

Floral City is a small residential town, so when a parent here needs daily help, families usually start looking west across the county toward the Gulf side. The nearest of our two communities is Sugarmill Manor in Homosassa, about 18 miles from Floral City and roughly a 30 minute drive. The Gardens in Crystal River sits a little farther north. You are welcome to walk both before you decide, in whichever order suits your week, and most of that decision comes down to how each building feels once you are standing in it.

Both communities are family owned, and both offer assisted living and secured memory care in the same building. That matters if your mother moves in needing help with her medications and later needs a secured setting, because she does not have to change towns or start over with new caregivers. Both accept Florida Medicaid. When you call Sugarmill Manor, a real person answers. Ask for the administrator and bring your questions about what your parent needs day to day.

Orange Avenue in Floral City runs under a canopy of old live oaks that meet over the middle of the road, which is why the street stays shaded through the hottest part of a summer afternoon and why most photographs of the town are taken there.

The community nearest Floral City

Sugarmill Manor

Homosassa, FL. Assisted living and memory care, family owned, with a direct line to the administrator.

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