Chancellor Gardens of Clearfield is the city's only published assisted-living building, but the scale rewrites the conversation. The campus runs 152 apartments under one roof, pairing its assisted-living wing with a 30-apartment secured memory-care neighborhood. That bed count places Chancellor Gardens among the larger single senior-living addresses in Davis County, with the operational depth and activities variety smaller settings cannot match. Aging Waiver participation, pet acceptance across the building, and the scale together make the address unusual on the broader Wasatch Front rather than just inside Clearfield.
For a Clearfield family weighing the move, the practical comparison is less Chancellor Gardens against another in-city option and more Chancellor Gardens against the deeper Layton inventory ten to fifteen minutes east. The city's heavy Hill Air Force Base anchoring shapes the resident demographic at Chancellor Gardens in ways that matter to many local households.
Daily Support and the Resident's Independence
A Chancellor Gardens day reflects the 152-apartment scale. The dining program runs across multiple seating times, the activity calendar carries the variety the building's size sustains, and the assisted-living wing operates with its own staffing rotation kept distinct from the secured memory-care side. Adult children visiting from across the Davis County corridor find the larger-campus rhythm familiar from urban senior-living settings, which is unusual outside the Wasatch Front's core suburbs.
Pets are welcome throughout the building, and the Aging Waiver participation runs as an active part of the operating model rather than as occasional exception capacity. For Hill Air Force Base retiree households, the building combines the financial structure (Waiver plus VA Aid and Attendance where applicable) with the daily-life features that long-tenured military-retiree families want from a move out of the home.
Pricing and Affordability
The median Chancellor Gardens apartment prices near $4,500 in 2026, with the band stretching from $3,595 on the smaller floorplans to $5,400 at the top of the configuration set. The entry point tracks the Davis County range. Inside the band, apartment configuration, the care-tier rating from the move-in clinical screen, and opt-in add-ons drive the variance. Move-in fees fall between $1,000 and $4,000 across configurations. A second resident sharing one apartment lands an extra $600 to $950 per month, with short-stay respite running $150 to $220 per night.
The Aging Waiver coverage at Chancellor Gardens is genuine and live, integrated into the operating model rather than rotated through limited exception capacity. For Waiver-eligible Clearfield households, the building is one of the few Davis County addresses where the program runs at meaningful scale, with Waiver-funded apartments cycling through eligible residents as openings emerge. VA Aid and Attendance can layer on top of either private pay or Waiver coverage for qualifying Hill AFB retiree households.
A Hill Air Force Base Anchored City
Clearfield is Hill Air Force Base's primary west-side bedroom community, with the base's 27,000 personnel and the surrounding aerospace, defense, and logistics economy shaping the city's working-age demographic. The median age sits near thirty thanks to that heavy active-duty inbound flow, but the senior pocket is real and growing as Hill AFB retirees stay close to TRICARE coverage and family ties. Roughly 3,100 of Clearfield's 35,000 residents are 65 or older in 2026, around nine percent.
FrontRunner commuter rail puts both Ogden and Salt Lake City inside a single train ride, which matters in senior-living planning because adult children scattered across the Wasatch Front metro can visit Chancellor Gardens without a long driving commitment. The transit access is unusual for a Davis County senior-living building and adds to the regional draw beyond Clearfield residents alone.
Why Families Choose Assisted Living in Clearfield
The Hill Air Force Base fabric runs through Chancellor Gardens' resident population in ways that matter to longtime military-retiree households. The broader retiree network, TRICARE coordination with Holy Cross Davis Hospital seven minutes east, and the VFW chapters across the corridor all remain reachable after the move into the building.
McKay-Dee Hospital fifteen to eighteen minutes north handles higher-acuity specialty needs spanning the Heart and Vascular Institute, the Huntsman-Intermountain Cancer Center, and the Stewart Rehabilitation Center, which many Clearfield military-retiree households have used for years.
What a Local Advisor Brings to Clearfield
The right question for a Clearfield family weighing assisted living is rarely whether Chancellor Gardens fits but how the benefit-coordination work has to be paced so the right path lands by move-in. On either of the two routes that bring families in (a Hill Air Force Base retiree household where TRICARE-supported home health visits and family caregiving have reached the limit of what they can sustain, or a Holy Cross Davis Hospital discharge whose after-stay plan recommends an assisted-living move), the advisor's first move reads Chancellor Gardens' current availability against the family's window. For Hill AFB retiree households, VA Aid and Attendance often becomes part of the planning, with the advisor working alongside veteran service officers to start the application early so its three-to-six-month processing aligns with the move-in. For Waiver-track families, eligibility paperwork moves in parallel with the apartment timing through the state's processing system.
Reaching out early gives families flexibility to weigh Chancellor Gardens properly against the Layton-corridor alternatives if needed. Get an advisor on the phone when assisted-living planning starts shaping the family's calendar, or view the wider Davis County set for added context.
