Senior Care in Delaware, Ohio

The Delaware County seat, home to Ohio Wesleyan University and two connected Willow Brook Christian Communities campuses.

Delaware is the county seat of Delaware County and sits roughly 25 minutes north of downtown Columbus. It's an older, more established community than the newer subdivisions closer to the Franklin County line — anchored by a historic downtown square and Ohio Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college that has shaped the city's character for well over a century. While much of the county's recent population growth has happened in townships closer to Powell and Dublin, the city of Delaware itself has a much longer settlement history, and that shows up in its senior-care landscape too: it's home to an established, faith-affiliated continuing care presence rather than the newer commercial communities you'll find further south.

Delaware is served by two connected campuses operated by Willow Brook Christian Communities, a nonprofit founded by Ohio's Churches of Christ: Willow Brook Christian Village, which offers independent living, assisted living, memory care, and long-term care, and Willow Brook at Delaware Run, its sister campus with an additional transitional-living option between independent and assisted living. The two campuses are connected by a free resident shuttle. See each community's full detail page in our Facility Directory for specifics verified directly against the operator's own website.

Ohio doesn't license assisted living as its own category — communities like Willow Brook's operate as Residential Care Facilities under Ohio Department of Health rules, with memory care handled through a disclosure requirement rather than a separate license. See our licensing explainer and memory care regulation explainer for how that works — the same rules apply in Delaware as anywhere else in Ohio. For cost planning, our cost of care guide covers Ohio's statewide medians, since no reliable source publishes a Delaware-specific figure.

Delaware sits in Delaware County, just north of Powell and the rest of the northwest Columbus suburbs. Families comparing options across the county often look at both together. See the full cities list for everything else we cover.