Non-medical help in your Holladay home — the wooded lot, the two levels, the driving — from a few hours to live-in.
Forty years in the same Holladay house teaches you exactly what it asks of you — and lately it may be asking more. You are far from alone in that: nearly one resident in five here is 65 or older, the oldest population in this stretch of the valley, most of it settled into houses raised in the 1950s and 1960s, the two decades that built almost half this city.
SeniorCare 801 exists so the house you know keeps working for you. Non-medical help brought to your door: cooking, bathing assistance, laundry, driving, companionship, and overnight or live-in coverage when nights turn uncertain. A few hours a week is a fine place to start. Call 801-515-5453.
Your house is likely past sixty now, remodeled more than once around a footprint drawn before 1970 — and somehow no remodel ever widened the bathroom door. Nobody publishes stair counts or door widths for Holladay, so your caregiver takes real measurements on the first visit — the bathroom doorway, the tight turn where the staircase ends — rather than assuming. Outside, the wooded lots that made you fall for this place carry their own hazards: walkways that stay iced in the shade long after the street is dry, and wet leaves in autumn as slick as any ice. Your caregiver treats the path from car to door with the same care as the stairs inside.
Light rail was never part of life here — the nearest TRAX runs miles west along the State Street corridor — so Holladay moves by bus and by car. Route 223 works 2300 East and Holladay Boulevard to the town center; Route 213 comes down 1300 East past St. Mark's Hospital and on toward Midvale; Routes 39, 45, and 220 fill gaps. Because paratransit follows the bus network, a thin grid means thin paratransit, so confirm your address is covered before you lean on it — applications at 801-287-2263. When the bus does not go where your life does, your caregiver drives, waits, and carries things in.
Mount Olympus Senior Center at 1635 East Murray-Holladay Road, 385-468-3130, anchors the week: weekdays 7:00 to 4:00, lunch at 11:30 with registration, and a calendar running from ceramics and oil painting to Tai Chi, Pilates, EnhanceFitness, bridge, pinochle, dominoes, and French classes. On rides, the city and the county describe the center's transportation differently — weekdays versus by request — so call and ask what is actually running. Next door sits the Holladay Lions Recreation Center, and the library on Murray Holladay Road is a short hop, 801-943-4636. On the days none of that is reachable, the company comes to you. That is the job.
St. Mark's on 3900 South is your closest full-service hospital, with Intermountain Medical Center a quick run down 4500 South and I-215 for anything specialized, and Highland Care Center on Highland Drive — the only Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility inside Holladay — often handling the rehab stay. Then comes the two-level house. The staircase, the original shower, and a string of follow-up appointments all need a second person for a while, and we would rather be scheduled before discharge than called in a panic afterward.
Holladay care tends to be a long arrangement rather than a short one — the oldest population in the area means more slow seasons than quick recoveries, and large houses on wooded lots eat shift time in winter. Which raises the Holladay money question: most of your wealth may be sitting inside the house itself. Borrowing against it can be reasonable, but sign nothing — reverse mortgage or equity line — until an adviser who works for you alone has read every page, especially if your spouse or your children hope to keep the property someday. And claim the free help first: the city's housing resources page lists critical home repair programs and Green and Healthy Homes grants covering accessibility work like grab bars and ramps, which genuinely reduces paid hours. County aging services: 385-468-3200. Us: 801-515-5453.
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 →Yes — narrow is a routine we plan for, not a disqualifier. Your caregiver checks what actually fits, then builds bathing around it: a chair inside, clothes staged outside, a steadying arm through the tight spot. Most midcentury Holladay bathrooms never fit two people; the routine simply has to fit the house.
No. Paratransit may cover your address — it follows the bus network, so ask at 801-287-2263 — and the senior center lists transportation of its own, though the city and county describe it differently, so confirm at 385-468-3130. And a caregiver's car goes wherever those cannot, on your clock rather than a route's.
Partly, and honestly. A caregiver can sit with you through a repair visit so you are not weighing a furnace quote alone, keep the household running week to week, and point you toward the city's home repair and Green and Healthy Homes programs for bigger accessibility work. The judgment stays yours; the company is ours.
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