Non-medical help wherever you live in Clearfield — owned or rented, rambler or apartment — meals, bathing, errands, company.
If you came to Clearfield for the Depot or for Hill, this city grew up around your working life — 665 of its houses went up in the 1940s alone, more wartime construction than Roy or Layton managed. Now the town is young again. The median age is barely thirty, and you may be the only one on your block who remembers Freeport Center when it belonged to the Navy. About 2,870 Clearfield residents are past 65: a small group, with needs that aren't small.
SeniorCare 801 brings non-medical help to wherever in Clearfield you live — a wartime house, an apartment, a mobile home. Meals, bathing, laundry, errands, rides, company. The hours are yours to choose. 801-515-5453.
Clearfield's homes are a patchwork, and so is what we do in them. In the 1940s houses and the 1950s ones that followed, the rooms run small and the bathrooms smaller. In the 708 mobile homes, entry steps are steep and hallways won't turn a walker. In the larger apartment buildings — 1,275 units sit in complexes of twenty or more — the challenge is the controlled front door and the long walk from parking. And because just under six in ten Clearfield homes are owner-occupied, many of you rent, so the grab bar you need may require a landlord's yes. Freestanding equipment doesn't: a bath bench, a clamp-on toilet seat, a rail that mounts under the mattress. A caregiver covers whatever hardware can't.
Clearfield's FrontRunner station — 1250 South State Street — offers about 560 free parking spaces, the biggest park-and-ride in this part of the county, with routes 626 and 470 stopping there. Davis County paratransit books at 801-287-7433 — not the Weber County number. Rides4Health, the county program at 801-525-5061, covers only non-emergency medical trips, five dollars suggested per ride. Groceries, the pharmacy, a haircut, a visit to a friend — all of that falls outside it, and those are precisely the trips Clearfield clients book a caregiver's car for.
The North Davis Senior Activity Center — 42 South State Street, phone 801-525-5080 — is one of just three senior activity centers in the whole of Davis County, and it's yours at 60: crafts, exercise classes, outings, card games, and lunch every day at a suggested three dollars. Each month brings two support groups on the first Wednesday, Alzheimer's caregivers at 3:00 and Parkinson's at 6:00. The county keeps its Aging and Adult Services headquarters one block over, at 22 South State Street (801-525-5050), with home-delivered meals handled by the same department. A caregiver drives you there, keeps the calendar straight, and fills the days the center doesn't.
Clearfield has no hospital. You'll come home from Intermountain Layton Hospital or from Holy Cross - Davis — the 221-bed stroke center on West Antelope Drive that most people here still call Davis Hospital. In-town skilled nursing means Rocky Mountain Care or the thirty-bed Thatcher Brook. The awkward stretch is the first two weeks back, especially if you rent and can't remodel a bathroom around new equipment. We front-load the schedule then — bathing, meals, rides to follow-ups — and thin it out as you regain ground.
In Clearfield, the building sets the hours more than the diagnosis does. From a second-floor apartment or a mobile home, getting out the door adds time to every errand, and a renter often can't put in the hardware that would speed a task along, so a caregiver substitutes for it. Two moves help. Ask your landlord in writing, early, for a threshold ramp or a bath bench — hours drop once it's approved. And if you rent and savings are thin, talk to Davis County Senior Services at 22 South State Street, 801-525-5050, before assuming you must pay for everything yourself: their case workers screen for Medicaid waivers that can cover personal care and homemaking Medicare doesn't, plus the county's Alternatives in-home program. You pay us only for the hours you use.
Help by the hour, on the days you pick, for the jobs that have gotten heavier than they used to be.
Learn more →Someone in your house from evening until morning, so the night hours stop being the ones you brace for.
Learn more →Staying in your own home with memory loss — and real relief for the husband or wife carrying it.
Learn more →One caregiver for your one household, even when the two of you need entirely different kinds of help.
Learn more →Rides to the doctor, the store, and church — because giving up driving should not mean giving up going.
Learn more →Help keeping your house the way you have always kept it, and real cooking back on your table.
Learn more →Bundle the day around a single descent: the caregiver arrives, you go down once, and the doctor, the pharmacy, lunch, and the errands happen in one loop before you climb back up. On days you'd rather not go down at all, everything — groceries, mail, laundry — comes up to you instead. Either way, the stairs happen on your terms.
A respite caregiver does — ideally the same one each month, so he gets a familiar face while you get the first Wednesday. The caregivers group meets at 3:00 at the North Davis center, and a Parkinson's group follows at 6:00. One steady hour a month with people who understand is worth protecting.
Three things, in order. Apply for UTA paratransit at 801-287-7433, since approval takes time. Register for Rides4Health at 801-525-5061 for medical trips. Then set a standing weekly errand block with a caregiver for everything those two don't cover — groceries, the bank, visits — so nothing in your life lapses with the license.
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