You still run your own house. You know where everything goes, what day the garbage truck comes, and how you like your eggs. Most of the week takes care of itself. But a few things have started taking longer than they should — the stairs with a laundry basket, the store on a busy Saturday, the tub that needs a better scrub than your shoulders want to give it.
Hourly home care puts a capable person in your house for two, three, or four hours at a time. You decide which days, you decide what gets done, and when the work is finished you have your home to yourself again. Nobody moves in. Nothing is signed away.
An hourly visit is built from your list, not ours. Tell us what has been piling up and the caregiver starts there. Most people settle into a mix that looks something like this:
Hourly care fits you if you are mostly fine and intend to stay that way. Maybe you live alone and the heavy work has outgrown you. Maybe your children keep offering, and you would rather pay a professional than turn your daughter's Saturdays into chore days. Maybe you are looking after a husband or wife and want a set of hands a few afternoons a week so it does not all land on you. What you are not looking for is a big arrangement. You want particular jobs done well, by the same person, and your privacy back the minute they are done.
Most people start with one visit a week and let it prove itself. A common shape is Tuesday morning, nine to noon: laundry going first, then the kitchen, then the store, then lunch on the stove before the caregiver leaves. If one morning turns out not to be enough, you add a second day — many settle at two or three visits a week and stay there for years. The same caregiver comes each time wherever scheduling allows, so you are not re-explaining your house to somebody new every month. And the schedule bends around your life, not the other way around: if your grandson's birthday lands on your care day, you move the visit, not the party.
Hourly caregivers are helpers, not medical staff. They are not nurses, and nothing they do in your house is a medical service. If what you actually need is somebody to manage a wound, adjust medications, or keep watch over a heart or lung condition, that is home health, and it is ordered through your doctor — we will tell you that on the first call rather than sell you the wrong service. Home health and hourly care can also run side by side, each doing its own job. What stays off the table:
Call 801-515-5453 and talk to a person. Tell us what has been piling up and which days suit you; the call usually runs ten or fifteen minutes. Then somebody comes to your house — at a time you choose — walks through it with you, and writes the task list in your words. You meet the caregiver before the first working visit, and if the match feels wrong, say so and we change it. First call to first visit is typically a matter of days, not weeks.
Hourly care is billed by the hour with a minimum visit length, and that minimum is what most shapes your bill. One three-hour visit costs less than three one-hour stops spread across the week, so it usually pays to bundle your list into fewer, fuller visits. The other levers are how many days a week you book, whether any visits fall on weekends or holidays, and whether errands add driving to the visit. Nothing obligates you beyond the schedule you set: you can add a day in a busy month and drop it the next. Ask for current rates when you call — we would rather quote you a real number than print a stale one.
Yes, and most people do. One standing visit is enough to find out how it feels to have help in your house. If it earns its keep, add a second day whenever you like. If it does not, you have lost one morning, not a season. There is no minimum number of days.
Tell us and we send someone else — no explaining required, no awkwardness to manage. The match matters more in this work than in most, because this person is in your kitchen. Trying a second caregiver is normal, and nobody's feelings run the schedule but yours.
No. Hourly care runs week to week on the schedule you set. Pause it for a month while family is visiting, trim a day, or end it altogether with a phone call. People stop and restart all the time, and the door stays open either way.
We arrange this across the Wasatch Front, from Ogden and Layton in the north through Salt Lake County and down to Provo, Orem and Springville. Pick your city from the service areas menu for local detail, costs and who pays.
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 →Tell us what is going on. No health details needed.
