Home Care in Little Havana, Hialeah, and Kendall: A Miami Neighborhood Guide

Miami-Dade County stretches from Little Havana and Overtown through Hialeah and Doral out to Kendall and Homestead — each community with its own character, its own language mix, and its own approach to family care. What they share is access to Florida Medicaid home care through SMMC LTC and access to CareChoice’s agency-directed services.

Little Havana and Overtown

Little Havana is the cultural heart of Miami’s Cuban community, with a large population of older adults who came to the U.S. decades ago and are now aging in the neighborhood they built. Many of these seniors prefer Spanish-speaking caregivers who understand Cuban cultural practices —from food preparation to daily routines to the social expectations around elder care.

CareChoice’s Miami team provides home care aides who speak Spanish fluently and understand the cultural context. In our experience, matching language and culture isn’t a nice-to-have in Little Havana — it’s essential to the quality of care.

Overtown, one of Miami’s oldest Black neighborhoods, has its own aging population with distinct needs. Families here have been caregiving across generations, and access to Medicaid home care programs can provide the structured support these families deserve.

Hialeah and Doral

Hialeah is the second-largest city in Miami-Dade County and one of the most heavily Cuban and Hispanic communities in the entire United States. The density of multigenerational families here is extraordinary — grandparents, parents, and children often living in the same household or within blocks of each other.

For Hialeah families, the same-household restriction in Florida’s PDO model is particularly relevant, since many caregiving families share a home. CareChoice’s agency-directed model provides an alternative: our aides come to the home and provide the personal care, homemaker services, and companionship your loved one needs, regardless of the family’s living arrangement.

Doral’s growing Venezuelan, Colombian, and Brazilian communities bring additional language and cultural needs. CareChoice works to match aides with families based on language compatibility and cultural familiarity.

Kendall, Homestead, and South Miami-Dade

The southern reaches of Miami-Dade County — Kendall, Cutler Bay, Homestead, Florida City —have growing senior populations and fewer home care providers per capita than the urban core. In our experience, families in South Dade sometimes face longer wait times for services because fewer agencies maintain active staffing this far south.

CareChoice is building coverage across South Miami-Dade specifically because these families are underserved. If your loved one lives in Kendall or Homestead and needs home care, we want to ensure they’re not waiting longer simply because of geography.

Getting Started in Any Miami Neighborhood

The process is the same countywide: confirm Florida Medicaid eligibility→ request a CARES assessment → enroll in an SMMC LTC plan (Humana, Sunshine Health, etc.) → receive a care plan→ begin services through CareChoice.

The Alliance for Aging at (305) 670-6500 serves as Miami-Dade’s Aging and Disability Resource Center and can help with referrals and initial guidance.

Contact CareChoice →Miami team

Written by Jailah Johnson, Community Engagement Coordinator | CareChoice