Non-medical help in your own Sandy home — meals, bathing, errands, and a hand on the stairs, on your schedule.
Close to fifteen thousand of your neighbors are 65 or older — about one Sandy resident in six — so nothing about needing a little help makes you unusual here. A third of this city went up in the 1970s, and if you bought in then, you have now spent fifty years in the same house, watching subdivisions climb east toward the mountains and fill in west toward the Jordan River.
SeniorCare 801 brings non-medical help to that house. Cooking, bathing assistance, laundry, errands, medication reminders, and company that arrives when it says it will. You set the hours — two mornings a week, every afternoon, or around the clock — and change them when your needs change. A person answers at 801-515-5453.
Sandy added more than eleven thousand homes in the 1970s alone, and about two-thirds of the city's houses were standing before 1990 — so if you have been here a while, your house is likely somewhere between 35 and 55 years old. You know its habits by now: the bathroom that fits one person or a walker but not both, the laundry a full flight from the bedroom. Where you live changes the winter. East of 1300 East, the streets tilt up the bench and a sloped driveway holds ice into February. Out west the ground lies flat and the job is shoveling, not slope. Either way, a caregiver takes the stairs and the ice so you don't have to.
Four TRAX Blue Line stations sit inside Sandy — Historic Sandy, Sandy Expo, Sandy Civic Center, and Crescent View — and Route 201 runs State Street from Murray Central down to South Jordan Station, with a stop at Sandy Civic Center. Routes 218, 220, 72, and 219 cover the grid, and F94 is the Sandy Flex bus. If platforms and stops are past being practical, UTA Paratransit requires an in-person mobility evaluation; call 801-287-2263. At 60 and over, Rides for Wellness will take you to medical appointments in the county on weekdays, 385-468-3200. For everything else, your caregiver drives.
The Sandy Senior Center at 9310 South 1300 East is open weekdays 7:00 to 4:00, with lunch served 11:30 to 12:15 for a suggested donation — register ahead, and know that membership is free and good at every county senior center in the valley. The number is 385-468-3410. If getting there is the hard part, a caregiver drives you, walks in with you if you like, and is back at pickup time. On days you stay in, Meals on Wheels delivers weekdays to homebound residents 60 and older through the county, 385-468-3200, and we cover the mornings, evenings, and weekends no program reaches.
Most Sandy hospital stays run through Intermountain Health Alta View Hospital at 9660 South 1300 East — three blocks up the street from the senior center — and some end with a rehab stretch at Sandy Health and Rehab at 50 East 9000 South. The first two weeks home are the ones that decide things: new pill bottles, a shower that suddenly feels risky, follow-ups you need a ride to. We can start the day you are discharged, stay overnight if the instructions call for it, and taper as you steady.
Your hours mostly follow your floor plan and the calendar. A two-story house with the laundry down and the bedroom up needs more of a caregiver's time than a rambler; an east-bench address usually adds winter hours for storm-day check-ins and driving. Recovery care tapers off as strength returns, while memory-related help tends to grow — we adjust either direction without a new contract. On paying: if you and your spouse bought long-term care insurance back in the eighties or nineties, pull the policy out of the filing cabinet now, not after a crisis. Most policies do cover non-medical home care, but they start with an elimination period — days you pay yourself — and they pay claims on documentation. We supply the visit notes and invoices carriers want. Real 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 →Membership is free, and it covers every Salt Lake County senior center, not just Sandy's. Lunch runs 11:30 to 12:15 on weekdays for a suggested donation, and the center asks you to register ahead — call 385-468-3410. If the drive is what has kept you away, a caregiver can handle that part and you keep the lunch.
Yes. Tell us your discharge date and we will have a caregiver at the house when you arrive — bed made, groceries in, medications sorted into the schedule the facility sent home. Most people need us most in the first two weeks, then fewer hours as walking gets steadier. You stop whenever you are ready.
This may be the most common thing we do in Sandy. A caregiver shops with you or for you, cooks food you actually like, portions leftovers for the days between visits, and sits down to eat with you — because eating alone is usually the real problem. Appetite has a way of coming back with company.
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