A free guide for Utah families.
Senior care in Utah
Every licensed community and home care agency in Utah, what the state's licenses mean, and how families here pay. Free for families. No one pays to be listed or chosen.
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Care that comes to the home
Every licensed agency in Utah, by kind, A to Z.
What Utah licenses
Senior care communities in Utah are licensed by the Utah Department of Health and Human Services. These are the kinds of license you will see in the directory.
- Assisted living, Type I
- For someone who is mostly independent and needs help with a few daily tasks, like medications, bathing or getting dressed.
- Assisted living, Type II
- For someone who needs more hands-on help, with moving, transfers or a medical condition. A Type II community may admit residents who need help leaving the building in an emergency.
- Nursing care facility
- For someone who needs skilled nursing every day, like wound care or round-the-clock medical monitoring.
Utah has no separate memory care license. A community offers memory care in a secure unit, and the directory marks the ones that do. A license level says who a community may admit, and nothing about quality.
How Utah families pay
Medicare does not pay for assisted living or long-term care.
Utah families pay privately, through the Medicaid New Choices Waiver, with VA benefits, or with long-term care insurance. Which one fits depends on income, savings, service history and how much care is needed.
Guides for Utah families
- How to Read a Utah Senior Care Community's Inspection RecordWhat a state citation means, how Utah rates severity, what corrected-and-verified tells you, and which findings are worth asking a community about on a tour.
- Staffing Ratios and Call-Light Times: How to Read ThemWhat staffing ratios and call-light response times mean when comparing Utah assisted living or nursing homes, and which numbers should reassure or worry you.
- Medicaid for Assisted Living: Utah's New Choices WaiverUtah Medicaid pays part of assisted living through the New Choices Waiver. Here's who qualifies, the 5-year look-back, and how to get into the program.
- Medicaid for Nursing Homes in Utah: The 10A RulesUtah Medicaid rule R414-502-3, known as '10A,' sets the criteria for nursing home coverage. Here's what it checks and the paperwork it takes to qualify.
- How to Pay for Assisted Living and Long-Term CareMedicare doesn't cover assisted living or long-term care. Here are the 4 ways families pay, and how to tell which one fits your situation.
- Utah Assisted Living License Types: Type I vs. IIUtah licenses assisted living facilities as Type I or Type II based on how much hands-on assistance and medical support residents need day to day.