Chancellor Gardens of Clearfield is the city's only published senior-living option, an unusually large 152-apartment campus that combines assisted living with a 30-apartment secured memory-care neighborhood, with pet-friendly policies and New Choices Waiver acceptance. Holy Cross Hospital - Davis sits about seven minutes east in Layton, with McKay-Dee Hospital fifteen to eighteen minutes north for higher-acuity care.
Clearfield serves as Hill Air Force Base's primary bedroom community on the west side of I-15. Aerospace, defense, and logistics anchor the local economy, with FrontRunner commuter rail connecting Ogden and Salt Lake. The city carries a young workforce profile (median age near 30), with a growing Hispanic population and Hill AFB military retirees adding to the older demographic. About 3,100 of Clearfield's 35,000 residents are 65 or older in 2026, near nine percent of the city.
How Care Shows Up in Clearfield
Chancellor Gardens's 152-apartment scale gives Clearfield meaningful single-building depth: assisted living for daily-care residents, a 30-apartment secured memory-care neighborhood, pet-friendly policies, and New Choices Waiver acceptance for Medicaid-eligible residents.
- Assisted Living: Chancellor Gardens of Clearfield's 152-apartment campus is one of the largest single senior-living buildings in Davis County. Pet-friendly policies and New Choices Waiver acceptance both expand who can move in. The building's scale supports a broader activity calendar and care-staff team than typical mid-sized Davis County campuses.
- Memory Care: Chancellor Gardens's 30-apartment secured memory-care neighborhood is among the largest dedicated dementia footprints in Davis County, paired alongside the assisted-living wing. Wait times at the most-requested apartments commonly run four to six weeks. The broader Davis County dementia inventory at Layton's Apple Village, Pheasant View, Abbington Layton, Fairfield Village, and Sunridge sits inside a fifteen-minute drive when local timing cannot match a recent diagnosis.
- Independent Living: Standalone apartment-style retirement is not part of Clearfield's local senior-living mix. Households seeking that model typically step into Bountiful's The Beaumont or Farmington's Legacy House Park Lane (Davis County's published independent-living tiers), or Layton's Country Oaks, Fairfield Village, and Sunridge continuum-style addresses inside a fifteen-minute drive.
- Skilled Nursing: Holy Cross Hospital - Davis handles short rehab stays for Clearfield residents. Longer-stay skilled-care placements move to South Davis Community Hospital's freestanding skilled-nursing campus in Bountiful or to the corridor's freestanding rehabilitation campuses. Standalone skilled-nursing rooms are not part of Chancellor Gardens's published footprint.
The Clearfield decision usually comes down to whether Chancellor Gardens's scale, waiver acceptance, and pet-friendly policies fit the family's full picture, with cross-corridor moves into Layton entering when timing or scale shifts the conversation.
Healthcare Access in Clearfield
Holy Cross Hospital - Davis under CommonSpirit Health sits about seven minutes east in Layton as a 220-bed acute-care campus. The hospital covers a full emergency department, ICU, cardiac catheterization, surgical services, and stroke certification. Most local senior-living residents reach the campus inside a seven-to-ten-minute drive.
Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital sits about fifteen to eighteen minutes north in Ogden as a 313-bed Level II trauma campus with a comprehensive cancer center, neurosciences, and advanced cardiac services. For higher-acuity referrals beyond the corridor's hospitals, families head about thirty-five minutes south to the University of Utah Hospital. Both Holy Cross Davis and McKay-Dee case management work directly with Chancellor Gardens during discharge planning.
What Clearfield's Pricing Looks Like
Chancellor Gardens's larger scale and New Choices Waiver acceptance shape the Clearfield pricing picture differently from smaller Davis County buildings. In 2026, assisted-living charges run $4,200 to $5,600 monthly. The 30-apartment secured memory-care neighborhood prices at $5,000 to $6,800. A tier-up from assisted living to memory care under the same roof runs $750 to $950 per month. New Choices Waiver acceptance gives Medicaid-eligible residents meaningful local capacity for the personal-care portion of monthly bills.
Move-in fees range from $1,000 to $4,000. A second resident in the same apartment adds $750 to $1,100 per month, and daily respite is priced at $160 to $230. Pet-friendly policies sometimes carry a small monthly pet-care fee, and the advisor flags the full pricing structure during the first conversation.
Why Families Choose Clearfield
Hill Air Force Base's economic anchor sustains Clearfield's working-age population alongside a steady community of military retirees. The FrontRunner commuter rail station gives Clearfield easier access to Ogden (north) and Salt Lake (south) than most Davis County cities. Most older Clearfield residents kept their houses because adult children built careers at Hill AFB, the corridor's aerospace and defense employers, or commute on FrontRunner to broader Wasatch Front employers. The diverse working-class population (about 20 percent Hispanic) shapes a different demographic profile than typical Davis County suburbs.
Bernard F. Fisher Park (named for the Vietnam Medal of Honor recipient) gives older residents a paved walking loop with pavilions, a splash pad, and an accessible playground. Steed Pond Park near 700 South offers a flat lake-loop walk. The North Davis Senior Activity Center on South State Street, run by Davis County, serves Clearfield and the surrounding cities with weekday programming. Daily errands cluster at Legend Hills shopping (Smith's, Walmart) plus the historic Main Street and Station Park's upscale dining and theater in nearby Farmington.
What a Local Advisor Brings to Clearfield
A Clearfield first call typically opens around Chancellor Gardens's combination of scale, New Choices Waiver acceptance, and pet-friendly policies, since the single 152-apartment building covers most local needs. Hill AFB military-retiree benefit pathways (TRICARE, VA Aid and Attendance) often factor in alongside the New Choices Waiver math. Cross-corridor moves into Layton enter when local timing, brand identity, or care-mix preferences shift the conversation.
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