Question: how to obtain the value taken by a differential equation at a point?

I am interested in dynamic systems that changes system equations at a given point in time. So i often want to plot graphs that shows what would happen in the first 500 seconds, then using the point reached after 500 seconds as the starting point show what happens over the next 500 seconds.

For example my equations might innitially

diff(x,t)=x+p*y

diff(y,t)=x/y

and then after 500 seconds switch to 

diff(x,t)=x-p*y

diff(y,t)=x/y

simply estimating where the system is and feeding that into the other equation isn't an option because these equations have lots of parameters which p is representing in the above, and generally i want too use these graphs to illustrate the behaveious of the systems with the given parameters.

So far i use display and DEplot to make these grpahs.