What's the difference between an Area Agency on Aging and a Long-Term Care Ombudsman in Ohio?

An Area Agency on Aging (AAA), like Western Reserve or Direction Home Akron Canton, coordinates a broad range of aging services, meals, caregiver support, waiver assessments, benefits counseling, across a defined multi-county region. A Long-Term Care Ombudsman focuses specifically on advocating for residents already living in a nursing home or residential care facility, investigating complaints tied to that resident's care and rights, and in this region the ombudsman program is actually administered through the AAA network itself.

How does Adult Protective Services actually work in Ohio?

Ohio Adult Protective Services is state-supervised by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services but administered county by county; unlike some states, there is no single statewide 24-hour hotline. Each county's Job and Family Services or Department of Job and Family Services agency runs its own APS intake, with a statewide online portal and backup number (855-644-6277) available if the correct county contact isn't immediately clear.

What's the phone number to report suspected elder abuse in Cuyahoga County?

Cuyahoga County's Division of Senior and Adult Services runs a 24-hour reporting line at 216-420-6700 for abuse, neglect, self-neglect, and financial exploitation of adults 60 and older living in the community. Call 911 first if someone faces immediate risk of death or serious harm.

Brookdale Stow | Assisted Living in Stow, OH

Near Routes 8, 271, and 77, minutes from downtown Hudson and Akron.

Brookdale Stow, at 5511 Fishcreek Road, offers assisted living and memory care and is located near the intersection of major regional routes 8, 271, and 77, giving the community relatively convenient highway access for families traveling from various parts of the greater Cleveland and Akron metro areas to visit.

Its Fishcreek Road location places Brookdale Stow just minutes from both downtown Hudson and downtown Akron, two of the more prominent commercial and cultural centers in Summit County, giving residents' families nearby destinations to combine with visits to the community.

As part of the national Brookdale Senior Living network, Brookdale Stow follows that company's standard assisted living and memory care service model, similar to Brookdale Mentor and Brookdale Westlake Village profiled elsewhere in this guide, though each Brookdale location differs in its specific local amenities and surrounding community. Located in Stow, a Summit County suburb positioned between Cleveland and Akron, Brookdale Stow sits near VITALIA Stow, another community in this guide serving the same area, giving families in Summit County a direct comparison between Brookdale's national assisted living and memory care model and VITALIA's Joint Commission-accredited, restaurant-branded alternative just a short distance away. Families cross-shopping Brookdale's various Cleveland-area locations profiled in this guide should weigh each community's specific local amenities and highway access alongside the shared national Brookdale service model when narrowing down options.

Short answer

Brookdale Stow is an assisted living provider at 5511 Fishcreek Road, Stow, Ohio 44224, in Summit County.

Location and contact

Community	Brookdale Stow
Care type	Assisted Living
Address	5511 Fishcreek Road, Stow, OH 44224
County	Summit County, Ohio
Website	Official site

What we do not publish, and why. We list only details we confirmed against this provider's own published information. We do not publish bed counts, license numbers, pricing or quality ratings for this community because we could not verify them from a primary source. Aggregator sites publish those figures freely; some are wrong, and Austin's sister-site research turned up exactly this problem elsewhere in the network. Confirm licensing yourself using the state tools below, and get pricing in writing directly from the community.

How Ohio regulates this provider type. The Ohio Department of Health licenses and inspects this provider type, and publishes the record free. Read the full explanation →

Current license status and inspection history: ODH Licensed Facilities, Services, and Program Search (verify a facility's current license status)
Consumer-facing quality information: Ohio Department of Aging Long-Term Care Quality Navigator (consumer-facing information on assisted living and nursing homes; not a CMS-style star rating)
To report a concern: Ohio Department of Health, 1-800-342-0553, Live call coverage Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern. Voicemail is available 24 hours a day and is checked twice daily outside live hours.

Evaluating an assisted living community. The questions that actually separate providers of this type. Read the full explanation →

Stow in context

Cleveland proper holds a mix of historic University Circle campuses and West Side communities, and it is where the region's three major hospital systems concentrate discharge planning. Traffic between the East Side and West Side of Cleveland runs through downtown, which matters more for visit frequency than the map distance suggests.

Other assisted living options near Stow

Judson Manor — Cleveland
St. Augustine Towers — Cleveland
Algart Health Care — Cleveland
Haven at Lakewood — Lakewood
O'Neill Healthcare Lakewood — Lakewood
Mount Alverna Village — Parma

Listing details verified 2026-07-21 against the provider's own published information. We are not affiliated with this community and do not represent it. Details change — confirm directly before making a decision.

Brookdale Stow

Location and contact

Stow in context

Other assisted living options near Stow

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