You can tell when a house is getting away from its owner — you have watched it happen to friends. The oven that mostly reheats now. The good tablecloth that has not been ironed since Easter. The bathtub you clean less thoroughly than you used to, because kneeling on tile is a genuinely bad idea these days.
If the house and the cooking are the things slipping — and the rest of your life is running fine — this is the help to start with. A caregiver takes over the heavy and the tedious, cooks food worth sitting down to, and leaves the place the way you would have done it yourself, back when you did.
You set the standard and the caregiver works to it — your products, your methods, your definition of clean. The regular work usually includes:
This is for the person whose standards outlived their stamina. You know how a house should be kept — you kept one for sixty years — and it grates to watch yours drift. Or you are the widower who inherited a kitchen he never learned, eating toast for dinner more often than anyone knows. Or arthritis has ruled out the vacuum and the oven racks, or your doctor has, after the last slip off the step stool. Or you and your spouse can each still manage yourselves perfectly well; it is the house you can no longer manage between you.
One good visit a week holds most houses. A common pattern is a three- or four-hour block on the same weekday: cleaning first while a pot of something works on the stove, then the laundry, then the meal finished and portioned — dinner for tonight and three or four containers for the freezer. Come back next week and repeat, adjusting the menu and rotating the deeper chores: the pantry one week, the oven another. Larger houses, or households cooking for two different diets, tend toward two visits. The caregiver is the same one each week, which matters more here than you might guess — by the third visit they know your kitchen, and you have stopped supervising.
Two honest limits. First, this is housekeeping, not heavy labor: caregivers keep a home clean and fed, but they are not a cleaning crew or a handyman service, and some jobs belong with specialists. Second, they are not nurses. If meals have become a medical matter — swallowing trouble, a feeding tube, a nutrition plan needing clinical oversight — that calls for home health guidance from your doctor, and a good cook is not a substitute for it. Cooking to a diet your doctor has described, low salt or diabetic-friendly, is well within reach; managing a medical condition through food is not.
Call 801-515-5453 and describe your house and your cooking — what has been let go, what you miss eating, any diet the doctor has handed down. The home visit is a walk-through: you point out what matters and what is off limits, and we write it down room by room. The first visit runs to your standard, with you free to hover exactly as much as you like. Most people stop hovering by the second week. The standard, though, stays yours permanently.
This is generally the simplest service to price, because it is steady: the same block of hours on the same day, week after week. The number moves with the size of the house, the length of the weekly visit, and whether cooking is a side dish or the main event — meal-heavy visits with shopping attached run longer than cleaning-only ones. Special diets take planning but do not change the hourly math. If you later fold in rides or hands-on help, those extend the existing visits rather than starting a second arrangement. One block a week is the usual starting point, and within a month you will know whether it is the right size.
Yes, and we mean it literally: your products, your order of operations, towels folded in thirds if that is the law of the house. The walk-through exists to capture your way of doing things, and the caregiver follows it. You are hiring hands, not surrendering the standard.
That is ordinary work here. One meal built around the stricter diet with additions for the other plate, or two variations from one pot of effort. Give us the doctor's guidance in writing and a list of favorite meals to adapt — most diets and most favorites can find each other.
Then that is the arrangement. Some people book a weekly cooking visit — the shopping, a big cook, the freezer stocked — and keep the housework for themselves as long as they can. The service bends to whichever half you need, and plenty of people run it lopsided for years.
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.
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.
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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 →Tell us what is going on. No health details needed.
