Clinton's senior-living offering pairs two distinct campuses in this Hill AFB-adjacent suburb: Country Pines Retirement Community (66 apartments combining independent living, assisted living, and a 16-apartment secured memory-care neighborhood, with pet-friendly policies and New Choices Waiver acceptance) and The Peaks at Clinton (a dedicated 66-apartment dementia-only campus under Pepperwood Senior Living). Holy Cross Davis Hospital sits about ten minutes east in Layton.
The city plays a family-focused suburban role tightly tied to Hill Air Force Base (Utah's largest single employer with about 27,000 personnel and a $12.7 billion annual economic impact). The heavy active-duty inbound flow keeps the senior population younger than the broader Davis County average. About 2,300 of Clinton's 24,000 residents have crossed 65 by 2026, near ten percent of the city, with the senior count growing as Hill AFB retirees stay close to TRICARE coverage and family ties.
How Care Shows Up in Clinton
Country Pines Retirement Community runs a full continuum across independent living, assisted living, and memory care under one campus. The Peaks at Clinton runs a dedicated dementia-only campus. Holy Cross Davis Hospital handles short stays, and Lakeview Hospital absorbs longer skilled-care placements.
- Assisted Living: Both Clinton senior-living buildings cover daily-care residents. Country Pines Retirement Community's 66-apartment campus combines independent living, assisted living, and a 16-apartment memory-care neighborhood under one roof with pet-friendly policies and New Choices Waiver acceptance. The Peaks at Clinton's 66-apartment campus under Pepperwood Senior Living focuses on a dedicated dementia-only model with pet-friendly policies. Together the two cover the corridor's care extremes, with Country Pines fitting full-trajectory planning and The Peaks fitting households whose primary need is dementia care.
- Memory Care: Secured memory-care capacity sits at both Clinton senior-living locations. The Peaks at Clinton runs the largest dementia-only campus on the corridor at 66 apartments under Pepperwood Senior Living, useful for households whose primary need is a quieter dementia-focused setting. Country Pines Retirement Community's 16-apartment secured neighborhood pairs alongside its assisted-living and independent-living wings. Together those two give Clinton eighty-two memory-care apartments, one of the deeper local dementia counts in Davis County.
- Independent Living: Country Pines Retirement Community holds the only published independent-living tier inside Clinton, paired alongside its assisted-living and memory-care wings under one continuum-style campus. People drawn to apartment-style retirement either settle into Country Pines's continuum tier or step a few minutes east into Layton's Country Oaks, Fairfield Village, or Sunridge for additional continuum-style options.
- Skilled Nursing: When skilled care becomes the next step for Clinton residents, the path runs through Holy Cross Davis Hospital alongside Lakeview Hospital twenty minutes south, with longer-stay placements landing at South Davis Community Hospital's freestanding long-term acute-care and skilled-nursing campus in Bountiful. Standalone skilled-nursing rooms are not part of either Clinton building's published footprint.
Most Clinton families narrow the two buildings on whether the parent's likely trajectory may need full continuum coverage (Country Pines) or focused dementia-only care (The Peaks at Clinton's dedicated campus). Hill AFB military-retiree benefits often shape pricing and care-mix conversations differently from typical Davis County families.
Healthcare Access in Clinton
Holy Cross Hospital Davis, CommonSpirit Health's 221-bed campus about ten minutes east in Layton, anchors clinical care for Clinton senior-living residents. The hospital covers a 24-hour emergency department, surgical services, cardiac care (with carotid stenting), women's services, and orthopedics. Most local senior-living buildings reach Holy Cross Davis inside a ten-minute drive.
Lakeview Hospital, MountainStar Healthcare's 128-bed campus twenty minutes south in Bountiful, covers cardiovascular care, hyperbaric and wound care, and behavioral health. South Davis Community Hospital adds long-term acute-care and skilled-nursing capacity. For higher-acuity referrals beyond the corridor's hospitals, families head about thirty to forty minutes south to either Intermountain Medical Center or the University of Utah's foothill medical campus. Holy Cross Davis and Lakeview case managers run discharges into senior-living placement on a real-time message thread with the building admissions teams.
What Clinton's Pricing Looks Like
The two campuses carry different pricing structures, with both tracking the broader Davis County median. Country Pines's full-continuum model and The Peaks at Clinton's dedicated dementia-only campus sit on opposite ends of the local mix. Country Pines's assisted-living charges run $4,000 to $5,500 monthly in 2026. The 16-apartment secured memory-care neighborhood comes in at $5,000 to $6,800. Country Pines's independent-living tier spans $2,800 to $4,200. The Peaks at Clinton's dementia-only memory-care apartments price at $5,200 to $7,000.
Move-in fees range from $1,000 to $4,000. Two-person households at Country Pines add $750 to $1,100 each month for the second resident, with daily respite stays running $160 to $230. New Choices Waiver acceptance at Country Pines often surfaces during the advisor's first call, alongside TRICARE and VA Aid and Attendance pathways for Hill AFB veteran families.
Why Families Choose Clinton
Most older Clinton residents trace their stay to Hill Air Force Base's military-retiree presence a few minutes south. The I-15 corridor connects both Salt Lake County and the Ogden corridor inside thirty minutes either direction, the family-focused 1800 North retail corridor keeps errands short, and the older central blocks hold multigenerational ties, all of which round out why families settle locally. Most older Clinton residents stayed because they retired from Hill AFB, work the corridor's manufacturing employers, or commute up to the Ogden tech-and-retail centers.
Clinton City Park's level walking paths along 1800 North, Heritage Park's gentler paths and pavilions hosting the annual Heritage Days festival, the surrounding 2000 West commercial walking grid, and accessible drives to Antelope Island ten minutes west give Clinton residents accessible weekday options inside the city. Clinton has no standalone senior center, so the Clinton City Recreation Building hosts senior luncheons on the third Wednesday monthly plus weekday card-crafting and a Thursday adult art group. The larger North Davis Senior Activity Center sits in adjacent Clearfield. Long-time Hill-AFB-adjacent neighbors typically catch a missed regular visit through a phone call inside a few days.
What a Local Advisor Brings to Clinton
Three threads usually shape a Clinton first conversation: Hill AFB veteran benefit pathways (TRICARE, VA Aid and Attendance), the choice between Country Pines's full-continuum campus and The Peaks's dedicated dementia-only model, and Holy Cross Davis Hospital's discharge cadence ten minutes east. When Clinton's two buildings cannot match timing, the advisor pulls in Layton, Clearfield, or Bountiful alternatives, all weighed against Country Pines's New Choices Waiver pricing.
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