A wide range in one Davis County city
Kaysville is unusual for how much its memory care options vary. Apple Tree Assisted Living sits at the value end and accepts Medicaid, the small residential Villas at Baer Creek also takes it, and Whisper Cove offers full-service care at the top of the range. That spread, captured in the $4,500 - $6,100/mo range, means families here genuinely have choices: a budget-friendly Medicaid path, an intimate small-home setting, or a fuller-service community. The right pick depends on a resident's needs and a family's budget, not on which is objectively best.
Across all three, memory care runs above each community's general assisted living rate because secured, dementia-focused settings carry added staffing and supervision.
Reading what you get at each tier
At the full-service end, the monthly rate tends to bundle the apartment, meals, housekeeping, laundry, and a robust activity calendar, with clinical care like medication management and incontinence support tiered by need. At the value and small-home end, more of daily life may come folded into a simpler all-inclusive rate, though heavier care still factors in as dementia advances. Because the Medicaid-accepting options work differently from the private-pay full-service community, ask each how it bills as needs grow, so you're comparing the same things.
Funding across the band
Most Kaysville families begin with private pay: income, savings, and often the sale of a home. Long-term care insurance can carry a meaningful share where a policy is in force. Wartime-era veterans and their surviving spouses may add the VA's Aid and Attendance benefit. And because two of the three communities accept Medicaid, residents who meet Utah's financial and medical criteria can have the care portion covered through a waiver, with room and board remaining private. That Medicaid path is what lets the lower end of the Kaysville range stay genuinely reachable.
Matching the choice to the future
With a band this wide, the smart move is to match the setting to where a resident is in the disease and where they're likely to head. Ask the value and small-home options how far they can support late-stage needs, and ask the full-service community what each higher care level adds, along with any one-time move-in fee. Touring across the range, rather than fixating on a single price, usually surfaces the best fit.