Planned travel
A wedding, a funeral, a vacation, a visit to a sibling. Schedule the respite stay weeks ahead.
Service · Respite
A night. A weekend. A week. Whatever your family needs.
Respite is short-term residential support, scheduled on a calendar instead of a wait list. A planned vacation. A hospital stay. A wedding out of state. The few days a year you simply have to be somewhere else, and you need to know your person is somewhere good.
When respite makes sense
Reasons families call us first.
Hospital or medical event
A primary caregiver's surgery, recovery, or hospitalization. We work with hospital social workers to coordinate timing.
Caregiver burnout
Caregiving is hard. Respite is preventive maintenance for the family system. Use it before a crisis, not after.
Transition window
Between school exit and supportive-living move-in, or between providers. A bridge stay.
Try before you buy
The fastest way to know if Aspen could be a longer-term placement is to spend a weekend with us. Respite is the door.
Standing schedule
Some families use one weekend a quarter on a standing schedule. We can hold a recurring slot.
What a respite stay looks like
Almost the same as a regular placement.
Your person stays in one of our supportive-living homes, in their own bedroom or in a designated guest bedroom (depending on the home and the timing). Same staff, same routines, same meals. We meet with you ahead of time to capture preferences, medications, dietary needs, and what would help your person settle.
For first-time stays we recommend an in-person home visit before the respite begins. The respite stay itself is documented in writing, and you receive a brief summary at the end of the stay.
How funding works
Respite care is a Medicaid HCBS waiver service in Utah. If your family member's waiver authorization includes respite hours, the waiver pays. If not, respite is available on a private-pay basis at published nightly rates. We tell you the dollar amount before any agreement.
Next step
Schedule a respite stay.
Call ahead by at least two weeks for planned stays. Emergency or urgent windows handled by phone.