In-home care in West Jordan, Utah. Companion care, personal care, respite and 24-hour support. Free consultation, no obligation.
West Jordan is the third most populous city in Utah, and it filled in fast: 4,221 residents in 1970, 42,892 by 1990, and roughly 116,800 today. Census estimates put 9.9 percent of the city at 65 or older, which sounds small until you count households. Some 8,064 of them include at least one person 65 or over, and 1,669 are a senior living alone.
The other number that matters here is the housing. The median build year is 1995, and 37 percent of West Jordan homes went up before 1990, the oldest stock in the southwest valley by a wide margin. Plenty of families who bought near Redwood Road or out toward Welby in the 1970s never left. Long tenure in an older house is exactly the situation in-home care was built for. Care 801 works citywide at 801-515-5453.
Calls from West Jordan tend to start after a fall on basement stairs, or after the spouse who was quietly doing all the caregiving gets sick herself. Nearly 28 percent of residents 65 and older here report a disability, and with more than 1,600 seniors living alone in this city, small problems go unnoticed for weeks. Other families call because the drive over from Daybreak or Herriman for every medication reminder stopped being sustainable. Some call the day after an emergency room visit on 9000 South, when going home alone suddenly becomes the question on the table.
About a third of West Jordan's housing dates to the 1970s and 1980s, which in this valley usually means a split-entry or a rambler: a half flight up to the kitchen, a half flight down to the bedrooms and laundry. Our caregivers plan around that landing. More than a quarter of homes here have five or more bedrooms, and in Utah that count almost always includes finished basement rooms, so the person we are helping may sleep a full floor below the front door. West Jordan also has 839 mobile homes, more than ten times the count in the three neighboring cities combined, which means narrow doorways, steep exterior steps and tight turns for a walker or a shower chair.
Four Red Line TRAX stations sit inside the city: West Jordan City Center at 8021 S Redwood Road, Jordan Valley at 3400 W 8600 South, 2700 West Sugar Factory Road at 8351 S 2700 West, and 5600 West Old Bingham Highway. Jordan Valley station is the closest stop to the hospital, which matters when relatives visit without a car. UTA Route 217 runs Redwood Road north into Salt Lake City. For anyone who cannot manage a platform, UTA Paratransit provides curb-to-curb rides after an in-person eligibility interview; scheduling is 801-287-7433, and riders must be ready during a 30-minute window.
The West Jordan Senior Center at 8025 S 2200 West (385-468-3401) opens weekdays from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM and is run by Salt Lake County Aging and Adult Services. Lunch is served 11:30 to 12:15 with phone registration required, and the class list is genuinely deep: Arthritis Foundation Exercise, Tai Chi, Gentle Yoga, Drums Alive, plus ceramics, lapidary, wood carving and Swedish weaving. The Gene Fullmer Recreation Center is next door at 8015 S 2200 West with an indoor track. None of that helps at 6:00 AM or on a Sunday. In-home care covers the hours the center is closed, and often supplies the ride that gets someone there.
Most West Jordan discharges come from Holy Cross Hospital - Jordan Valley at 3580 W 9000 South, which longtime residents still call Jordan Valley Medical Center. It has 172 licensed beds, an acute rehabilitation unit and a 24-hour emergency department. Directly across 9000 South, Copper Ridge Health Care at 3706 W 9000 South runs 120 skilled nursing beds, a two-block move for someone who needs rehab first. The two weeks after the last move home are the fragile part: new prescriptions, a walker nobody has practiced with, and no one to notice at 3:00 AM.
Hours in West Jordan usually track the stairs. A client who sleeps in a basement bedroom and bathes on the main floor needs someone present at more points in the day than one who has consolidated onto a single level. Households here average 3.16 people, so an adult child or a grandchild is often already in the house, which can narrow scheduled care to targeted blocks: mornings, evenings and a weekend stretch. Recovery periods after a hospitalization run higher and then step down. We quote after seeing the home, never over the phone.
| Type of support | Typical rate | Commonly used for |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly visits (3-4 hrs) | $32 - $38 / hr | A few mornings a week, meals, errands, companionship |
| Longer shifts (8+ hrs) | $30 - $34 / hr | Daytime cover while family are at work |
| Awake overnight | $34 - $40 / hr | Someone who should not be alone at night |
| Live-in | $380 - $480 / day | Continuous presence where the caregiver sleeps in the home |
| Respite block | Hourly rate applies | A week or two while a family caregiver takes a break |
These are typical ranges, not a quote. The consultation gives you real numbers for your actual schedule, and there is no fee to be matched with a provider.
If the person you are caring for served in the military, ask about VA Aid and Attendance before anything else. It is an increase to a monthly VA pension for veterans and surviving spouses who need help with bathing, dressing or medication management and who meet the service and financial tests, and it can be applied to non-medical care at home. The paperwork moves slowly, so gather discharge records, marriage certificates and physician statements before the situation becomes urgent rather than after. Salt Lake County Aging and Adult Services is the Area Agency on Aging for West Jordan and can connect you with benefits counseling. We can build a schedule around a claim that has not landed yet.
Whoever you end up working with, these are the questions that separate a provider who will still be reliable in six months from one who will not.
Company, conversation, errands and a steady set of eyes on someone living alone.
Learn more →Hands-on help with bathing, dressing, grooming and moving safely around the house.
Learn more →Routine-based, familiar-face support at home for someone living with memory loss.
Learn more →Overnight or around-the-clock coverage when someone should not be alone.
Learn more →Help at home through the first weeks after a hospital or rehab stay.
Learn more →Yes. Our caregivers work the whole city, from the 1970s streets near Redwood Road to the Copper Hills and Jordan Hills areas climbing toward the Oquirrh foothills. Travel between them is short enough that we can assign consistent caregivers rather than sending whoever happens to be nearest, which matters most for memory care clients.
Often yes, and we will tell you after we see the layout. Moving a bed, a lamp and a commode to the main floor can eliminate a dozen stair trips a day. If the only full bathroom is downstairs, that changes the math, and we will plan bathing help around whichever level is genuinely safer.
Yes. Lunch runs 11:30 to 12:15 at 8025 S 2200 West and requires registration by phone ahead of time. A caregiver can register him, drive him, sit with him or step back, and bring him home. For someone who resists going at all, starting with an exercise class instead of the dining room often works better.
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