Non-medical help at home in Orem — meals, bathing, rides, overnight presence, and hours that fit around the Friendship Center.
More than ten thousand Orem residents are 65 or older and 4,339 are past 75 — more of both than Provo, for all the attention the college towns get. If you are one of them, you likely raised a family in a seventies or eighties house here and have no plans to leave it. Utah Valley University's 48,670 students commute in and out; you stayed.
SeniorCare 801 provides non-medical help in Orem homes: cooking, bathing and dressing help, laundry, rides, and company — plus real relief if you are the husband or wife quietly doing all of it for someone else. Hours flex from a few mornings a week to overnight. 801-515-5453.
Orem built itself between 1970 and 1999 — over half the city's housing went up in those three decades, the 1970s alone contributing 6,880 units, and barely three percent of the stock predates 1950. Odds are good you live in a split-level: half a flight up to the bedrooms, half a flight down to the family room, a layout drawn before anyone planned a bathroom around a walker. Those half-flights are short, but you take them all day long. A caregiver plans around them — carrying the laundry, standing by on the stairs, moving the day's essentials onto one level — so the house you have kept for fifty years keeps working for you.
Orem Central Station at 900 South 1350 West has close to 500 free parking spaces and marks the northern end of UVX, the rapid bus that stops at the station, UVU, and University Mall before running into Provo — every 10 to 15 minutes, no Sunday service, fares charged since August 2024. The more useful number for many residents is 801-374-9306: the city operates its own curb-side transportation for residents with disabilities out of the Friendship Center. Utah County paratransit is 1-877-882-7272. And when the schedule needs to be yours rather than a route's, a caregiver drives.
The Orem Senior Friendship Center at 93 North 400 East (801-229-7111) is run by the city itself, open weekdays 8 to 5, and membership costs eleven dollars a year at 55 — free once you turn 80. The week fills quickly: quilting and wood shop Tuesday and Thursday mornings, line dancing Monday and Friday afternoons, bingo after lunch, billiards all day, blood pressure and blood sugar checks Friday mornings, and 53 trips and tours a year. Lunch is a three-dollar suggested donation at 60 and over, reserved a full day ahead — a call a caregiver can make for you, along with the ride over and the getting-ready beforehand.
Orem has two hospitals — Timpanogos Regional at 750 West 800 North, with orthopedics, cardiology, and an ICU, and Intermountain's Orem Community Hospital at 331 North 400 West — but only 58 short-stay rehab beds in the whole city, and they fill fast. So a knee replaced at Timpanogos often finishes healing at home, sometimes on a day's notice. We staff those first weeks: transfers, the exercises your therapist assigned, meals, medications on time, and someone present overnight while your strength comes back.
Orem is where the Mountainland Association of Governments — Utah County's aging agency — keeps its headquarters, and if you are caring for a husband or wife, its Utah Caregiver Support Program (801-229-3804) deserves a call before you spend a dollar of your own. It funds respite, overnight respite, adult day care, and personal care aides, with no income test and no program fees, capped at twelve months or $1,500. That ceiling is low, so treat it as the start of a plan rather than the whole of one. Your routine does the rest of the budgeting: regular Friendship Center days genuinely lower the paid hours you need, while nights — especially once memory is involved — are where the number grows. We will price both parts honestly. 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 →Start with the house, not with her. A caregiver who comes for the cooking and laundry becomes a familiar face before anything more personal is needed, and the same person returns each visit so trust builds. Nothing gets announced or made into an event. Most couples find the routine settles in quietly within a few weeks.
They should be the first thing written into the schedule. We plan care around Friendship Center days, not over them — help getting ready, the ride there and back, and lunch reserved a day ahead as the rules require. Time at the center is time you are not paying a caregiver for, which suits everybody.
Quite a bit. We look at which trips are actually necessary — laundry, bedroom, family room — and take the carrying out of your day, with a caregiver alongside for the flights that remain. Many split-level clients shift sleeping or washing onto one level. The first visit tells us what is workable in your particular house.
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