Non-medical help in your Taylorsville home — the half-flights, the laundry, the rides out of town — arranged around you.
The children moved south; you stayed. That is Taylorsville in one sentence — the population has slipped since 2020 while the number of residents 65 and older has grown to about 7,935, many of them original owners of houses built in the seventies and eighties. The Harker, Bennion, and Mackay families settled this ground in 1848, and staying put has been the local habit ever since.
SeniorCare 801 makes staying workable. Non-medical help in your own home — cooking, bathing assistance, laundry, medication reminders, driving, and company — whether your family is in Herriman, Eagle Mountain, or another state. You set the hours and change them freely. Call 801-515-5453.
Six in ten Taylorsville homes date to the 1970s and 1980s, and odds are yours is a rambler, a split-entry, or a bi-level. The split-entry is the one that turns on you: a half-flight up or down waits just inside the front door, the laundry and often a bedroom sit below grade, and the bathroom was measured for 1978 — fine for you, tight for you plus a walker plus a helper. The city's own housing study found more than half the homes here lack conveniences newer construction takes for granted, grab bars included. A caregiver works with the house you have: staging the stairs, carrying the laundry, and keeping your day on one level whenever possible.
For most of your years here there was no train and no station, and there still is not — but since April 2026 the Midvalley Express, route 50X, runs through Taylorsville along 4500 and 4700 South, partly in its own bus lane, with a stop at the Salt Lake Community College Redwood campus. One end is West Valley Central; the other is Murray Central, where TRAX and FrontRunner wait. Riding costs nothing through April 2029. The senior center runs its own transportation some of the time — ask at 385-468-3370 — and UTA Paratransit applications go through 801-287-7433. Your caregiver drives the rest.
The Taylorsville Senior Center, 4743 South Plymouth View Drive, 385-468-3370, is a partnership no neighboring city has: the city owns the building and Salt Lake County staffs it. Doors open weekdays 7:00 to 4:00, lunch runs 11:30 to 12:15, and the class list rewards browsing — EnhanceFitness and chair aerobics, photography, wood burning, crocheting, computers, Brain Gym, plus billiards, ping pong, horseshoes, and Wii games. A few doors up at 4775 South Plymouth View Drive, the Taylorsville Food Pantry opens Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday hours for residents who meet income guidelines. A caregiver can fold the center, the pantry, and the grocery run into one comfortable outing.
Taylorsville has no hospital, so you will come home from somewhere else — usually Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, the largest hospital campus in Utah, or St. Mark's, Holy Cross West Valley, or Holy Cross Jordan Valley. Rehab happens closer in, at Legacy Village on 5400 South or Meadow Peak on the Summit Vista campus. The hard part is the homecoming: a split-entry staircase on day one, new medications, and follow-ups back in another city. We schedule those first weeks heavy and taper as you strengthen.
What moves the bill in Taylorsville is the floor plan and the odometer. A house where the shower or the washer lives at the bottom of the basement stairs needs more caregiver presence than a one-level rambler, and with every hospital and most specialists out of town, an appointment day can stretch a two-hour visit into four. Here is the step too many of your neighbors skip: if you bought long-term care insurance decades ago, call the carrier now and ask three plain questions — what has to happen before benefits start, how many days you pay on your own first, and exactly what records a claim requires. Get the answers in writing while nothing is wrong. We keep the daily notes and detailed billing a claim depends on. Schedule and rates: 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 →Easily — they sit a few doors apart on Plymouth View Drive. A caregiver can time the trip so you have lunch at the center at 11:30, stop at the pantry during its open hours, and pick up groceries on the way home. One outing, three errands, and you are back before the afternoon gets long.
It exists, but availability changes, so call the center at 385-468-3370 before you build a week around it. When it is not running, or the timing does not fit, a caregiver drives you, comes in with you if you want, and brings you home. You should not have to plan your health around a bus schedule.
Yes — and in a split-entry city it is often the first task clients hand over. Carrying a basket down open basement stairs is a risk with no reward. Your caregiver runs the loads and brings everything back up folded, and the same trip can cover whatever else lives down there.
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