What memory care rates include in Clearfield
Memory care in Clearfield lives within Chancellor Gardens, where roughly 30 beds form a secured neighborhood distinct from general assisted living. Residents move freely inside a protected space designed to reduce wandering risk and confusion, with staff trained specifically for memory loss.
Having this level inside one large community matters: a resident whose dementia progresses can often shift from assisted living into the memory care neighborhood without leaving the building or the staff they know.
Why memory care rates vary in Clearfield
Memory care begins near $5,400 a month in 2026, above general assisted living at the same address. The added cost pays for real things: a locked, secure layout, more staff per resident, and daily routines structured around cognitive support rather than open-ended activities.
Apartment choice still moves the number, since a shared room for a resident in an earlier stage costs less than a private space, and higher-acuity care, the kind needed in later dementia, raises the total because it demands more staff time and closer supervision throughout the day and night.
How Clearfield families pay for memory care
Chancellor Gardens accepts Medicaid, a meaningful detail for a secured memory care unit of this scale. Through a Utah waiver, families who meet the medical and financial tests can have the care portion of memory care offset.
The waiver stops short of room and board, so the apartment cost stays a private expense. Sorting which dollars the waiver reaches, and confirming a resident qualifies, is exactly the kind of thing our advisor handles before you commit.
Twelve months of memory care in Clearfield
The published memory care rate in Clearfield is $5,400 a month, roughly $64,800 over a year before any assessed care is added. Households tend to compare monthly figures and then find the annual total is the number that decides things, so it is worth doing that arithmetic early. Because only one rate is published locally, the honest comparison set extends beyond Clearfield into the rest of Davis County and the towns just past it, where the same level of care is frequently priced differently for reasons that have nothing to do with quality.
What the secured rate covers in Clearfield
A Clearfield memory care rate should carry the secured environment, dining with help, round-the-clock personal care, cognitive engagement and constant supervision. Beyond that the differences are real: some communities hold a flat all-inclusive figure while others add tiers as a resident needs more, and over a multi-year stay those two models produce very different totals from the same starting number. Establish which model applies before comparing quotes. Then ask where the written limit on care sits, since a setting that discharges as the illness progresses turns a single placement into two moves, which is costly in both money and disruption. Request the written care schedule before touring, so the tiers above the base rate are visible rather than discovered later on an invoice. Ask what the last two annual increases came to as well.