Non-medical help in your Midvale home, whether you own a cottage near Main Street or rent at Bingham Junction.
Not everyone in Midvale owns the walls around them — fewer than half the homes here are owner-occupied, the lowest share in this part of the valley. So if you rent, you are typical, not the exception, and what may be changed in your bathroom belongs partly to a landlord. About 3,415 Midvale residents are 65 or older, spread across a town that has been two towns since the smelter days: century-old cottages near historic Main Street, and new buildings at Bingham Junction west of the freeway.
SeniorCare 801 works both sides of I-15 with non-medical help — meals, bathing assistance, errands, company, overnight coverage — shaped to the home you actually live in. Call 801-515-5453.
Midvale's housing runs to extremes. Near Main Street the cottages are genuinely old — a sixth of the city's homes predate 1950 — with steep porch steps, doorways a walker scrapes through, one small bathroom, and the washer down in an unfinished basement. West of the freeway, Bingham Junction rose in this century on the cleaned-up smelter ground: level entries, elevators, wide corridors, and hardly a stair in daily life. Easier bones, but with fobs, gates, and visitor rules a caregiver has to be cleared for before day one. Whichever home is yours, we adapt to it — and if you rent, we work within your lease instead of pretending you can remodel.
Few cities your size can say this: three TRAX stations on two different lines inside six square miles. Bingham Junction on the Red Line; Midvale Fort Union and Midvale Center on the Blue — with one wrinkle worth knowing, since Fort Union station sits on the west side of town while the Fort Union neighborhood sits on the east. One stop north, Murray Central adds FrontRunner and the Midvalley Express bus. If boarding a train has become the hard part, UTA Paratransit takes applications at 801-287-7433. And when the day calls for door-to-door — groceries, the pharmacy, a haircut — your caregiver drives.
The Midvale Senior Center at 7550 South Main Street, 385-468-3350, has a feature no nearby center matches: a public cafe run by Elevation Catering, serving breakfast 8:30 to 10:00 and lunch 11:30 to 1:30 — open to anyone, so your son or a neighbor can simply meet you there. The building runs weekdays 7:00 to 4:00, with bonsai, origami, pottery, painting, yoga, tai chi, EnhanceFitness, line dancing, and a workout room with weight machines. The Sandy Senior Center on 1300 East is the nearest alternate. Our share of the week is the rest of it: up, fed, and out the door for breakfast, then settled back home after.
No hospital carries a Midvale address, so recovery starts with a drive home — usually from Intermountain Medical Center, two and a half miles up Cottonwood Street in Murray, or from Alta View, Lone Peak, or St. Mark's. A rehab stay may run through Cascades at Riverwalk on Jordan River Boulevard, the one skilled nursing facility inside the city, or Aspen Ridge in Murray. If you come home to an apartment where no family lives down the hall, we make those first two weeks a written plan — visits, meals, medications — instead of hoping a neighbor notices.
Two local facts shape the bill. Renting limits what can be bolted to a wall, and an unmodified bathroom simply takes longer — sometimes an extra short visit rather than one long one. And I-15 splits the town, so schedules run smoothest when your visits stay on your side of it. On paying: the letter that surprises people here is the one ending Medicare home health. Medicare sends a nurse or therapist for a defined episode after a hospital stay, then stops; the daily help you keep needing — bathing, meals, someone present — was never in the benefit, though some Medicare Advantage plans add a modest home-support piece, so check yours in writing. If you own your home, Midvale's Home Repair Loan lends up to $15,000 at zero interest, forgivable with occupancy, and accessibility work qualifies — NeighborWorks Salt Lake, 801-539-1590. Straight answers: 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 →We settle that before the first visit — your caregiver gets registered with management, added to the visitor list, and set up with whatever the building requires: a code, a fob, or a front-desk call. You should never be standing at an intercom buzzing someone in. Once cleared, arrivals become routine.
Yes — that is the quiet advantage of the Midvale Senior Center. Its cafe, run by Elevation Catering, is open to the public, serving breakfast 8:30 to 10:00 and lunch 11:30 to 1:30. He needs no membership and no age qualification to sit with you. A caregiver can have you there while the coffee is fresh.
We do, on a schedule set before you are discharged. A caregiver can meet you at the door, restock the kitchen, sort the new medications into your routine, and come daily until you are steady — with updates to your family, wherever they live. Living alone in an apartment should not mean recovering alone.
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