Secured wings, plus a dedicated building
Lehi's memory care has a feature most Utah cities don't: a choice between secured neighborhoods inside larger communities and a building built solely for memory care. Covington Senior Living Lehi, Abbington Manor, Aspen Ridge Residences of Lehi, and Bellaview Assisted Living provide secured settings within broader communities, while Abbington Manor Memory Care is a dedicated memory care building. That distinction matters: a dedicated building means every resident, every staff member, and every design choice is oriented around dementia, with no mixed population to navigate. Both Abbington Manor and its dedicated memory care building accept Medicaid, widening access in this fast-growing tech corridor.
The range of $5,200 - $6,500/mo reflects these varied settings. In every case, memory care runs above a community's general assisted living rate because of the secured environment and dementia-focused staffing.
What the rate carries
Across Lehi's options, the monthly rate generally bundles the living space, meals made for residents who forget to eat, housekeeping, laundry, and a structured day of dementia-aware activities. Care that grows with the person, medication management, incontinence support, and closer one-to-one help, factors in as needs deepen. A dedicated building may approach staffing and billing differently from a secured wing, so when comparing, ask each how the base rate is set and what gets added.
Paying in the corridor
Most Lehi families pay privately to start, using income, savings, and often the sale of a home in an appreciating market. Long-term care insurance can cover a meaningful share when a policy exists. Wartime-era veterans and surviving spouses may add the VA's Aid and Attendance benefit. With two of the five communities accepting Medicaid, residents who meet Utah's financial and medical criteria can have the care portion covered through a waiver, while room and board stay private and waiver slots can be limited.
Choosing for the long term
Dementia advances, so ask each community how it reassesses care and what later stages add to the cost. The dedicated building may suit a resident already well into the disease, while a secured wing in a larger community can ease an earlier transition, and either should spell out its one-time move-in fee. In a corridor growing this fast, touring across the secured-wing and dedicated-building options is the surest way to match setting, cost, and stage.