Highland Glen is the city's only published senior-living building, a 72-apartment campus that combines assisted living with a 32-apartment secured memory-care neighborhood, one of the larger memory-care footprints in the upper Utah Valley. Intermountain American Fork Hospital sits eight to ten minutes south for clinical care.
Highland sits between Mt. Timpanogos to the east and Lone Peak to the north, where the Highland Glen reservoir corridor and large-lot equestrian properties shape the city's rural-residential feel. Original 1990s subdivisions have aged in place, raising the senior share to roughly 9 to 10 percent, higher than the broader Lehi or Saratoga Springs corridor. By 2026, about 2,000 of Highland's 21,000 residents are 65 or older.
How Care Shows Up in Highland
Highland Glen's 72-apartment campus combines assisted living with a 32-apartment secured memory-care neighborhood. Skilled-care placements move through American Fork Hospital and the broader Utah Valley corridor.
- Assisted Living: Highland Glen runs 40 assisted-living apartments alongside its 32-apartment memory-care neighborhood, giving the building continuum-style depth inside one campus. The 72-apartment scale fits households after deeper amenities and care-staff resources than typical small residential settings, with the foothill location between Mt. Timpanogos and Lone Peak shaping the daily setting.
- Memory Care: Highland Glen's 32-apartment secured memory-care neighborhood is one of the larger dedicated dementia footprints in the upper Utah Valley. Paired alongside the assisted-living wing, the building handles a parent's care progression inside one address. Wait times at the most-requested apartments commonly run four to six weeks, and the broader upper-Utah-Valley dementia inventory at Lehi's Covington and Bellaview, Spring Gardens Lindon, and the Orem cluster sits inside fifteen minutes.
- Independent Living: Apartment-style independent-living capacity isn't part of Highland's published senior-living roster. Households seeking apartment-style retirement typically step into the Utah Valley corridor's dedicated buildings (Treeo Orem, Solista Orem about fifteen minutes south), or stay on long-time Highland horse-property acreage with home-health support.
- Skilled Nursing: Post-hospital rehab for Highland families runs through American Fork Hospital. Longer-stay skilled-care placements move to a freestanding rehabilitation campus around the upper Utah Valley, or up to Utah Valley Hospital for higher-acuity needs. Standalone skilled-nursing rooms aren't part of Highland Glen's published footprint.
The Highland decision usually centers on whether Highland Glen's combined assisted-living-plus-memory-care scale fits the family. Cross-corridor moves into Lehi or Orem enter when timing or specific apartment-style preferences shift the focus.
Healthcare Access in Highland
Intermountain American Fork Hospital sits eight to ten minutes south as a 90-bed acute-care campus on North 1100 East in American Fork. The hospital ranks repeatedly among top community hospitals nationally, with full surgical, cardiac, orthopedic, and emergency services. Most Highland senior-living residents reach the campus inside a ten-minute drive.
CommonSpirit Holy Cross Mountain Point Hospital in Lehi sits about twelve minutes south as a secondary acute-care option. For higher-acuity referrals beyond the upper Utah Valley, families head about twenty minutes south to Utah Valley Hospital in Provo (Intermountain Health's 395-bed Level II trauma flagship). American Fork Hospital case management coordinates discharges directly with Highland Glen's admissions team.
What Highland's Pricing Looks Like
Highland's affluent rural-residential character pulls senior-living rates toward the upper end of the upper-Utah-Valley corridor, and Highland Glen's 72-apartment scale supports deeper amenities. In 2026, the assisted-living rate at Highland Glen runs $4,200 to $5,800 monthly. The 32-apartment secured memory-care neighborhood prices at $5,200 to $7,000, and the same-building step up to memory care typically costs $800 to $950 more each month.
Move-in fees range from $1,200 to $4,000. A couple's second-resident charge runs $750 to $1,200 monthly, and daily respite stays land at $170 to $240. The combined assisted-living-plus-memory-care building structure occasionally layers care-progression incentives that the advisor flags during the first conversation.
Why Families Choose Highland
Highland's rural-residential feel between Mt. Timpanogos to the east and Lone Peak to the north, the Highland Glen reservoir corridor, the predominant LDS family-rooted character, and the large-lot equestrian properties together shape a particular profile among upper-Utah-Valley cities. Most older Highland residents kept their houses because adult children built careers along the Lehi Silicon Slopes corridor, the broader Utah Valley employer base, or a commute up to Salt Lake County employers.
Highland Glen Park's paved fishing-pond loop with benches and gentle grades plus Heritage Park's interpretive walking trails give older residents accessible weekday options. The Murdock Canal Trail's flat paved 17-mile path runs along the city's southern edge as a longer walking option. Highland does not run a dedicated city senior center, so older residents typically use the American Fork Senior Center on East Main Street under Mountainland Aging Services. Highland Town Center at 5300 West and SR-92 (Macey's, Walgreens, local restaurants) plus the Meadows shopping center five minutes south in American Fork anchor daily errands.
What a Local Advisor Brings to Highland
Highland-area senior-living conversations usually focus on Highland Glen's combined 40-apartment assisted-living wing plus 32-apartment memory-care neighborhood, asking how the parent's likely trajectory aligns with the continuum-style approach. American Fork Hospital's discharge cadence eight to ten minutes south plus the deeper upper-Utah-Valley dementia inventory at Lehi and Orem factor in when timing or specific care-mix preferences shift the conversation.
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