Non-medical help at home in Millcreek — from Canyon Rim to Mount Olympus, a few hours a week to live-in.
You manage well, and everyone says so. That is often how it goes in Millcreek, where about one resident in six is 65 or older — roughly 10,000 people, many in paid-off postwar houses running from the valley floor up the Wasatch foothills — and where doing fine can hold right up until an iced driveway or a spouse's procedure undoes it in a weekend.
SeniorCare 801 is the call that keeps a hard weekend from becoming a move. Non-medical help in your own home: meals, bathing assistance, errands, driving, memory support, overnight coverage. Whichever name you give when asked where you live — Canyon Rim, East Mill Creek, Mount Olympus — we come to you. Call 801-515-5453.
If your house went up in the 1950s you have plenty of company — that decade built more of Millcreek than any other, and half the city's homes date from 1950 through 1979. You know the trade-offs: a ranch with narrow doorways and a small bathroom, or a seventies two-story with every bedroom upstairs. What the floor plan does not show is the ground under it. The city's own sensitive-lands maps mark steep slopes in the Mount Olympus area, steep lots along Tanner Park in Canyon Rim, and the ravines that follow Mill Creek — which on your street means a driveway that ices in November and stays treacherous into March. Your caregiver treats that approach as part of the visit, not an obstacle to it.
Here is the local joke that stops being funny when you stop driving: the TRAX stop named Millcreek is not in Millcreek. It sits on 3300 South in South Salt Lake — miles and a ride away from the east bench. Buses run on 3300 South, 3900 South, and Highland Drive, but UTA reshuffles routes often enough that it pays to check rideuta.com before counting on one. UTA Paratransit applications go through 801-287-7433, and Rides for Wellness, 385-468-3200, drives residents 60 and over to medical appointments in the county. For the grocery store, the pharmacy, and lunch with a friend, your caregiver drives.
The Millcreek Senior Center at 2266 East Evergreen Avenue, 385-468-3305, shares its building with a county library branch, so one trip covers your books and your lunch — served 11:30 to 1:30, a longer window than most centers give you. Inside: cribbage, pinochle, bridge, mahjong, yoga, tai chi, arthritis exercise, EnhanceFitness, even ballet and line dancing. The center's own van has been listed as temporarily unavailable, so confirm before relying on it. Mount Olympus Senior Center on Murray-Holladay Road serves much of the east bench. And Millcreek Common on Chambers Avenue runs a Friday farmers market and free Sunday-morning yoga — the kind of outing a companion visit is made for.
St. Mark's Hospital sits on your city's southern edge at 1200 East 3900 South, and Millcreek holds a remarkable concentration of rehab beds — Monument Healthcare Murray Creek on 700 East alone has 184, with Canyon Rim, Mt. Olympus Rehabilitation, Millcreek Rehabilitation, and Spring Creek close by. So the beds are here; the question is what happens after them. We can start the afternoon you are discharged, keep the exercises and medications on track, and stay long enough that the recovery actually holds.
Millcreek hours track the property: more square footage, more stairs, and in winter a driveway and front walk that must be dealt with before anything else happens — on the bench we sometimes shift start times just to manage the approach. As for the money, in Millcreek it is rarely about whether funds exist; home values here are the highest in the area, and many of you are comfortable on paper and careful by habit. If your children offer to share the cost, let them — but settle the mechanics while you are still the one running things. Decide whose name sits on the account, where the invoices land, what you contribute yourself, and say plainly that the child who gives you Saturdays counts as much as the one who writes checks. We will price a schedule in plain numbers: 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 →Buses on 3300 South, 3900 South, and Highland Drive — check rideuta.com, since routes change — plus Rides for Wellness for medical trips at 385-468-3200, and paratransit if you qualify at 801-287-7433. For everything those miss, a caregiver drives, waits, and carries the bags in. Most of our clients use a mix.
Gladly — that is exactly what a companion visit is for. Your caregiver walks with you, carries the produce, and folds any other errand into the way back. The Friday market and the Common's free Sunday-morning yoga are both realistic outings, and keeping them on your calendar is the whole point of help at home.
Most of our Millcreek clients pay from their own funds and let the children contribute in other ways — rides, weekends, the paperwork. What matters is deciding once, in writing, who receives the invoices and who to call about schedule changes. Care runs best when exactly one person is steering, and it can be you.
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