Non-medical help in your own Salt Lake City home — the stairs, the meals, the errands, and steady company.
The house came first. A quarter of Salt Lake City's homes were already standing in 1939, and if you own one of them, you have probably owned it a long time — long enough to watch the block turn over around you. About 26,100 of your neighbors are 65 or older, and many are in the same position: attached to a good old house that asks a little more of the knees every year.
SeniorCare 801 brings non-medical help into that house. Bathing assistance, cooking, laundry, medication reminders, rides, and company that shows up when it says it will. You decide the hours, from two mornings a week to around the clock. A person answers at 801-515-5453.
The median Salt Lake City house went up in 1965, and a third of them predate 1950 — old enough that the city runs Fix the Bricks, a seismic program for unreinforced masonry built before 1975. You know what that age means from the inside: front steps heaved by eighty winters, doorways your walker barely clears, the one full bathroom upstairs, laundry down an open basement staircase, a north-facing porch that keeps its ice until February. None of that has to force you out. A caregiver carries the laundry, spots you on the stairs, and salts the steps — and if the second floor stops making sense, helps you move daily life down to the first.
You live in the one valley city where FrontRunner, TRAX, and Amtrak all board along 600 West near Salt Lake Central. Downtown rides are free inside the Free Fare Zone — but only if you get on and off within it, and a FAREPAY card still has to tap on and tap off. If the platform itself has become the obstacle, UTA Paratransit takes applications with an in-person evaluation at 801-287-7433. At 60 or older, Rides for Wellness will drive you to medical appointments in the county for a suggested $3 — book about two weeks out at 385-468-3200. Your caregiver drives for everything else.
Two county senior centers operate inside city limits, both open weekdays 7:00 to 4:00. Liberty Senior Center at 251 East 700 South, 385-468-3170, serves lunch 11:30 to 12:15 and runs Tai Chi, EnhanceFitness, ceramics, computer classes, billiards, and a movie room. River's Bend at 1300 West 300 North, 385-468-3015, adds quilting and watercolors, with a $4 suggested lunch donation. If you were a Tenth East regular, that building is closed for reconstruction — the county at 385-468-3200 can tell you where its programs went, and the same number reaches Meals on Wheels. A caregiver handles the drive both ways and stays useful on the days you never leave the house.
Whichever building you come home from — University of Utah Hospital on North Medical Drive, the Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital beside it, LDS Hospital up on 8th Avenue, Holy Cross on South Temple, the Wahlen VA on Foothill, or a skilled bed at St. Joseph Villa — the risky part starts at your own front door. New prescriptions, a stair rule you are supposed to follow, follow-up visits across town. We can be at the house the day you are discharged and stay until you are steady.
In this city the house often sets the hours more than the diagnosis does. A third-floor walk-up in the Avenues adds minutes to every single errand; a bedroom upstairs and a washer downstairs may call for a short second visit instead of one long one. One thing to check before money gets tight: your service record. With the Wahlen VA right here on Foothill, more of our Salt Lake City clients hold VA pensions than anywhere else we work, and wartime veterans and surviving spouses on a pension can qualify for Aid and Attendance — added monthly income precisely because bathing, dressing, or medications now take help. The award comes from the VA alone, and the file moves slowly, so open it while it is still optional. Numbers in writing: 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 →Many of our clients do. A caregiver spots you on the stairs at set times, moves bathing to the safest part of the day, and takes laundry trips off your list entirely. If the stairs eventually win, we help you set up a main-floor bedroom and change the routine rather than the address.
Only if your whole trip stays inside it — you have to board and exit within the zone, and a FAREPAY card still needs to tap on and tap off. Ride past the boundary and normal fare applies. If reaching the platform is the harder problem, a caregiver can ride with you or simply drive.
The Tenth East building is closed for reconstruction, and its programs were moved rather than canceled. Call Salt Lake County Aging and Adult Services at 385-468-3200 to learn where your class landed. Liberty on 700 South and River's Bend on 300 North keep the same weekday hours, and a caregiver can drive the new route with you until it feels familiar.
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