Helpful Organizations
KUED has compiled this list of resource organizations for your convenience. We bear no responsibility for the content of each organization's web site. Copyright is solely their responsibility.
Salt Lake County Aging ServicesIn addition to the links and options offered here, we encourage you to call The Caregiver Support program at (801) 468-2460 for one-on-one assistance in care planning and management. We also offer support groups and classes (either in the community or at worksites).
This program is funded through federal, state, and county taxes. There is no charge to family caregivers. Limited respite and supplemental services are also available.
State of Utah Human Services, Division of Adult and Aging Services
We administer a wide variety of home and community-based services for Utah residents who are 60 or older. Programs and services are primarily delivered by a network of 12 Area Agencies on Aging which reach all geographic areas of the state. Our goal is to provide services that allow people to remain independent.
Utah Directives
April 16th is National Health Care Decisions Day! As part of the national movement, Governor Huntsman has declared April 16th to be Utah Health Care Decisions Day.This day comes as the State of Utah launches a redesigned Advance Health Care Directive Form that addresses many of the barriers that have hindered completion of directives in the past. Forms and instructions are readily accessible from this link.
Utah Coalition for Caregiver Support
Our website is for seniors, caregivers, the families of seniors, social workers, discharge planners, and anyone who serves the needs of seniors. This is a comprehensive guide to Senior Housing, Health at Home, Health Services, Professional Services, Care Management, and Community Resources in the Salt Lake City area.
Utah Aging Alliance
The mission of Utah Aging Alliance is to promote the exchange of ideas and information about aging.
2-1-1 Information and Referral
2-1-1 is an easy to remember telephone number that, where available, connects people with important community services and volunteer opportunities.
"55 Plus" Booklet
Inside you'll find a wide range of organizations, support agencies, and community services for seniors and their families. The listings include contact information and a brief description of services.
Seniors Resource Guide for Salt Lake City
Our website is for seniors, caregivers, the families of seniors, social workers, discharge planners, and anyone who serves the needs of seniors. This is a comprehensive guide to Senior Housing, Health at Home, Health Services, Professional Services, Care Management, and Community Resources in the Salt Lake City area. The Seniors Resource Guide has become a well-respected resource for seniors, their families, and senior-professionals in many metropolitan markets of the United States
State of Utah- Department of Health
Utah Food Bank
Utah Food Bank Services meets immediate, basic needs of people in our community who don't know where else to turn.
University Healthcare
This page contains links to other World Wide Web sites with information home health and hospice care.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Social Security Administration
Utah Health Care Association
On behalf of the members and staff of UHCA, we hope that this web site will become a valuable resource by providing meaningful & timely information relative to Utah’s long-term care profession.
Utah Alzheimer's Association
10 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer's in the United States. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer's.
Utah Assisted Living Association
The mission of this organization shall be to promote the philosophy and concept of assisted living for the elderly.
Utah Hospice
We are dedicated to providing sensitive and loving care to those at the twilight of their lives and help for those who love and care for them...
Utah Health Policy Project
The Utah Health Policy Project is a resource for the public, community leaders, businesses, health care providers and policy makers interested in strengthening the health care system while working to develop visionary and systemic solutions to the crisis of the uninsured and under-insured.
Human Services Directory
The Human Services Directory is a comprehensive listing of all the private non-profit and public human service programs in Tooele, Salt Lake, and Summit Counties. Currently there are more than 700 listings.
Coalition of Religious Communities
CORC works for constructive change on issues affecting low income people by educating congregations regarding those issues and enlisting clergy, congregations and individuals to get involved
U of U Social Work- Initiatives on Aging
The Initiatives on Aging was created to promote practice, policy, and research in aging that will help to improve the quality of life for the elderly and their families.
Catholic Community Services of Utah
Catholic Community Services of Utah serves the needs of the poor, troubled and oppressed, and helps them solve life problems, and become self-sufficient and healthy.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors Program
Neighbors Helping Neighbors (NHN) is a relatively small but growing and developing organization committed to helping the elderly remain in their own homes for as long as possible by building communities from the inside out.
HealthInsight
HealthInsight is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the healthcare systems of Utah and Nevada.
Visiting Nurse Associations of America
The voice of home healthcare
National Association for Home Care
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice is the nation's largest trade association representing the interests and concerns of home care agencies, hospices, and home care aide organizations.
TimeBanking
Our mission is to expand a movement that develops, supports, and promotes a network of Time Banks that rebuild community, and reforms economic and social systems, policies and practices so that they empower human beings to contribute to the well-being of each other through reciprocity.
ChangeMakers
CareShares radically increases the supply of help, makes eldercare affordable and restructures the current health support system by turning consumers, users and their families into providers of basic services.
CareBanking
The plan is simple. Healthy individuals with time on their hands would be trained and placed in the homes of ailing elderly persons in need of basic personal care. The volunteers would provide this care and "bank" the hours served, to be drawn upon when they themselves need similar assistance.
Family Caregiver Alliance
FCA is a public voice for caregivers. Our pioneering programs: information, education, services, research, and advocacy, support and sustain the important work of families nationwide caring for loved ones with chronic, disabling health conditions.
National Alliance for Caregiving
The National Alliance for Caregiving is dedicated to providing support to family caregivers and the professionals who help them and to increasing public awareness of issues facing family caregivers.
National Family Caregivers Association
The National Family Caregivers Association educates, supports, empowers and speaks up for the more than 50 million Americans who care for loved ones with a chronic illness or disability or the frailties of old age. NFCA reaches across the boundaries of diagnoses, relationships and life stages to help transform family caregivers' lives by removing barriers to health and well being.
Support for spousal caregivers.
Eldercare at Home
The Foundation for health in Aging strives to bring the unique insight and expert knowledge from the research and practice of Geriatrics to bear on a broad-based and sustained national debate on the future of our health care system as it affects older persons.
Healthy Caregiver
Is dedicated to building better communities through public health intiatives, community education programs, faith based outreach, public policy and grassroots advocacy.
Family Care America
The National Caregivers Library is one of the most extensive online libraries for caregivers that exist today.
Crossroads Urban Center
Crossroads is a multipurpose nonprofit, grassroots organization. We help to organize low income, disabled, and minority Utahns to be advocates on their own behalf in addressing essential issues affecting the quality of their lives. We also provide direct services to help meet basic survival needs.
FlexCare
The FlexCare Program seeks to develop a comprehensive long term service continuum that provides optimal quality of life to eligible patients in the least restrictive and most cost-effective setting possible.
H.E.A.T
HEAT provides winter utility payment assistance to low-income households, targeting those who are truly vulnerable - the lowest-income households with the highest heating costs: the disabled, elderly, and families with preschool-age children.
National Respite Locator
The National Respite Locator Service helps parents, caregivers, and professionals find respite services in their state and local area to match their specific needs.
National Adult Day Service Association
The National Voice for Adult Day Service Communities.
National Center for Assisted Living
The National Center For Assisted Living (NCAL) is the assisted living voice of the American Health Care Association (AHCA), the nation’s largest organization representing long term care.
US Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Aging
In about AoA you can access information about the agency, its mission, budget, and organizational structure. In addition, you can learn more about the Older Americans Act, the federal legislation establishing the AoA and authorizing a range of programs that offer services and opportunities for older Americans and their caregivers.
ElderWeb
This section of ElderWeb is a comprehensive overview of how our long term care system has evolved by examining the events and decisions that changed the way that we have provided and paid for the care of our elderly over the years.
Nursing Home Compare
The primary purpose of this tool is to provide detailed information about the past performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country.
Elder Life Planning
Informed Eldercare Decisions, Inc., is a private company dedicated to helping family caregivers make the best care choices for parents and relatives. We work with professionals of every specialty concerned with elder life planning.
The American Geriatrics Society
Dedicated to the health of older Americans.
Assisted Living Federation of America
The Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA) is the largest national association exclusively dedicated to professionally operated assisted living communities for seniors. ALFA's member-driven programs promote business and operational excellence through national conferences, research, publications, and executive networks. ALFA works to influence public policy by advocating for informed choice, quality care, and accessibility for all Americans.
Area Agencies on Aging
The Eldercare Locator is the first step to finding resources for older adults in any U.S. community. Just one phone call or Website visit provides an instant connection to resources that enable older persons to live independently in their communities. The service links those who need assistance with state and local area agencies on aging and community-based organizations that serve older adults and their caregivers.
