Non-medical help at home in Provo — meals, bathing, errands, company, and a steady hand on the old stairs.
The census says Provo's median age is about 23, and you know exactly how much that number has to do with you. BYU's 37,000 students show up in the averages; the fifty years you have spent in your house do not. And you have plenty of company: 7,693 of your neighbors are 65 or older, more than 3,200 are past 75 — more people over 65 than Bountiful has.
SeniorCare 801 brings non-medical help into Provo homes: cooking, bathing help, laundry, errands, driving to appointments, and genuine company on the days nobody else stops by. You set the hours, from a few mornings a week to around the clock. Call 801-515-5453.
If your house sits in the East Central blocks, it may be one of 599 contributing structures in a historic district covering 260 acres — bungalows, Craftsman and Prairie School houses, late Victorians, most raised between 1900 and 1925. Citywide, more than 2,500 Provo homes predate 1939. Those houses were built beautifully, and built steep: an original staircase with narrow treads, a bathroom the size of a closet, laundry down in the cellar. A caregiver takes over the parts of the house that have started arguing with you — the cellar stairs, the wash, the high shelves, the front steps in January — so that the rest of it stays entirely yours.
Provo Central Station at 701 South Freedom Boulevard is the southern end of the FrontRunner line, with 811 parking spaces and a fistful of connecting bus routes. UVX, the rapid bus along University Parkway and University Avenue, runs every 10 to 15 minutes — but it was drawn for the campus corridor, not for Edgemont, Grandview, or Provost, and it now charges a fare and takes Sundays off. Utah County paratransit is 1-877-882-7272. For the pharmacy run, the follow-up, the haircut, a caregiver who drives your route on your schedule is usually the arrangement that actually holds.
You may still call it the Eldred Center; the city calls it the Provo Senior Citizens Center, at 320 West 500 North, 801-852-6620. Lunch is served at noon Monday through Friday through the Mountainland nutrition network — a plate built to cover a third of your day's nutrition, with texture-modified options and carbohydrate counts if you need them, for a suggested four dollars that stays strictly voluntary. If leaving home is the hard part, home-delivered meals serve those 60 and over who are homebound; the nutrition line is 801-229-3802. A caregiver can drive you to lunch, or cook what the center doesn't cover — breakfast, supper, and the weekends.
Utah Valley Hospital at 1034 North 500 West is a 395-bed Level II trauma center — the referral hospital for the whole county — and Provo has exactly one Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility, 220 beds, across the street from it. When no rehab bed opens, coming straight home with support is often the realistic path, and it works when the first two weeks are planned before discharge day rather than on it. We handle those weeks: meals, bathing, medication reminders, a steady arm at 3 a.m., and rides back for follow-ups.
Before you agree to anything — our services included — use the free advice this county already provides. The Mountainland Association of Governments is Utah County's aging agency, at 801-229-3800 or aging@magutah.gov, and it offers options counseling, free Medicare counseling, a long-term care ombudsman, and a caregiver support line at 801-229-3804. Ask them what public programs fit your situation; then price private hours against a real schedule, not a guess. In Provo the schedule usually follows the house: an older two-story with the wash in the cellar tends to want short daily visits, while a single-level home can often get by on two or three mornings a week. Our consultation is free, there is no fee to be matched, and you pay only for hours used. 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 →Not replace — improve on it. A neighbor notices the porch light; a caregiver notices that you skipped lunch, that a prescription ran low, that the back step has worked loose. Visits come on a schedule you set, so someone dependable is in your house regularly, and anything worth flagging gets flagged to whoever you choose.
Yours. You are the client, so the schedule, the tasks, and any changes run through you. We keep your son informed exactly as much as you want — a call after visits, a weekly summary, or nothing beyond emergencies. Plenty of Provo clients manage their own arrangements entirely; distance does not transfer your say to anyone.
It is precisely what we help with. A morning visit covers the bath, dressing, breakfast, and the drive to 320 West 500 North in time for the noon meal, then home again after. Protecting the routines you already love is better care than inventing new ones, and it usually costs fewer hours than people expect.
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