Continuing Care Retirement Communities Communities in Allentown, PA

"My wife is at Fellowship Community. It's very well-staffed, and it's very clean. Good parking. There's an easy entrance with an automated sign in, so you get a name badge when you go in. The staff seems to be long-term and low turnover. The residents have individual rocking chairs in the community room where they watch TV, and they do prayer and other activities. The rooms are large. It's very comfortable. It's a top-rated facility in the area."

"Country Meadows Retirement Communities was very nice. The person that gave me the tour of the memory care was very knowledgeable. It was the biggest facility that I viewed, but the buildings, grounds, and interiors were all top-notch. The staff was very good, too."

"We toured the Moravian Village of Bethlehem. It was not right in town, but close enough to town. And Bethlehem is a beautiful town. The room was very nice, and they had storage for things in your apartment. And the person that gave us the tour was very pleasant. The way it was set up, the rooms are on two floors, and they had a lot of nice common areas where people would get together. They had two places, some of them are little individual houses, and some of them were in the main building. The little houses were nice because you had a garage and you also had a basement where you could store your things, which I thought was very nice. The rooms in the main building had nice balconies and the way they were set up you get a lot of light in the apartment. They had a lot of physical activities and they had people that specialize in doing things with people with arthritis and so on. They also have a lot of physical activities that help keep people healthy. When we went there, some people were meeting in the library and were having a discussion or something in a book club or something. I think it was in their library. I think they also had a pool class going on in there. The dining area looked very pleasant and some people were setting it up. I didn't taste the food, but it looked like they were enjoying it and they had a lot of available choices. It is expensive, though. The staff went to a lot of trouble to answer our questions. We got to see what the rooms looked like. And I think they were very efficient with their tours and were very thorough. It seemed that they had a lot of good things on the menu."

"I liked The Lutheran Home at Topton very much, but they don't have the plan that the other place has where you pay one price when you move in and if you need nursing home care, you still pay the same price, so they don't have that option. The place seemed nice. We liked everything about it, except they didn't have the option for long-term care. We saw a cottage and it was nice. We saw a couple of very nice apartments. The problem is, that nothing is available. You have to wait until somebody moves out before the bigger type of apartments that we're interested in would be available. We had lunch and breakfast there one time, and it was very, very nice, and the food was very good. Everybody was very friendly. It seemed like a very nice atmosphere. They have movies, bingo, and card games. I think you could be as busy as you want to be or not however you choose to do it."

"My mom stayed at Moravian Hall Square Nazareth, PA for rehab. The staff was very good. The staff was very caring, compassionate, and very conscientious with her care. The facility was beautiful and super clean. You almost felt more like you were in a hotel than in a rehab center. The quality of the food was wonderful. When my mom first went in, she was not eating very well, but after being there for a few days, she started eating again because she liked the food. The people who did rehab were very knowledgeable and kind."

"My dad was at Frederick Living. It was a beautiful, fantastic place. It was nice. I couldn't have picked a better place for him to go. The staff was all pretty caring. They had their own bistro there."

"My wife was in the hospital recently, and after that, they sent her to The Community at Rockhill for rehab. She was there for about two weeks. The people were very pleasant. They took very good care of her. They showed us two different apartments while we were there, but I felt that it would be too expensive, although they said that if you run out of money, you can still stay there. However, I had to put up a couple of hundred thousand dollars just to get into the place. To get my wife in there, they put her in a room with another woman. I couldn't even have a chair to sit in because there's no space for it. I sat on the bed the whole time that I was there, and I'd visit her from 10:00 in the morning to 9:00 at night, except for when I ate. By the time I got out of there, I had a very stiff back. There was no room to put a chair without blocking the doorway. It was small. It was very clean. They came in every day and they cleaned the room. They made the bed. They furnished her with a chair to sit in. It was a lounge chair that could tilt forward, so she didn't have a hard time standing up. Every time she had to do something, they came into the room. If she had to go into the bathroom, they took her into the bathroom. The meals were good, especially the soups. My wife loved it. The staff was very good. On the weekends, they got outside help, and they usually were good, but they had one woman come in who only lasted one night after my wife reported the things she did. Other than that, the service was good all the time. They had a lot of activities there, but we were in a rehab center, so all the activities I saw were people sitting in chairs, and I think they bowled. They were enjoying themselves. They had an art class where they painted a figurine."

"We chose Lutheran Community at Telford because it is close to our friends and family. My mother was there, and I know what the staff are like because I spent many hours visiting. They are all very friendly. I have tried the food, and it is excellent. They have an exercise room. They have a pool, and they have entertainment (if you would call it that). They also have educational entertainment like lectures, if you want to go to them. The hospital isn't that far away; it is within a couple of miles. Restaurants are also within a few miles. Right next to it is a library and a grocery store. There are walking trails. There are things other than restaurants. We plan to move in in about a year or so."

"I had a relative who stayed at Souderton Mennonite Homes, and it's a really great facility. Everybody wants to get in there because they're probably the least expensive of all the facilities. His little apartment was on the ground floor. It had a nice living room. They have a barbershop, a library, and a pool. It was clean and well maintained. They're a very caring community."

"We had to place our father in physical therapy after a serious fall at home and subsequent surgery. We are grateful to Pine Run Health Center for how wonderful they made his stay, the admissions process, and our visits. We had team meetings with the social worker and staff, OT and PT. He had excellent meals. His nurses were attentive and the facility is clean. We live close to the facility and visited several times a day and always found dad with a smile. In addition, the facility is in an easy-accessible, yet rural, Bucks County setting which allowed him to get fresh air daily, first by wheelchair and then via walks along the beautiful Pine Run paths. We are thankful to have such senior health care right here in Doylestown. "

"Brittany Pointe is the newest of the communities I've visited. Their apartments were outstanding. They have an area that's very light and with windows on all three sides, that made the apartment very bright. I thought it was more limited in terms of the eating facilities but it was still very nice. "

"My parents were both at Elm Terrace Gardens, and I would highly recommend it. My mom started in independent living, but they still had nursing available, so she was able to get around and do what she needed to do but she still had nurses nearby that could help her. When she started needing help with her medications she was still in independent living but they went down to the nurse's station to get her medications for her when she started confusing them. They kept an eye on her and they listened to my concerns. And when she needed to go to personal care, we were able to move her. We worked with them, and they worked with us to get her into personal care. She needed personal care until she passed away. My father went right into skilled care. He was in skilled care the whole time, and I liked how they treated him there, too. So, the option of having all of those things there was beneficial. They're very good at keeping on top of things. We never had any problems with them. If there was a spill or something, they came and took care of it right away. I thought it was very clean and very well taken care of. The staff was very good, from the people in the kitchen to the nurses. My mom had a dietary issue, and they would keep an eye on her, and they did that for other people too. I've known several people who have lived there. I used to go to the cafeteria with her occasionally to have lunch, and the food was very well-cooked, done well, and not too bland."

"Gluco Lodge Personal Care Home was very receptive. I went up, someone was there to greet me, and I liked the place. It seemed to be very clean. There seemed to be a lot of people around taking care of the residents. John did the tour for us and was very nice and gave me a lot of information. They were very helpful in letting me know what information I needed to get to them. Then he came and visited my mother and assessed her and was very quick to let me know that she was accepted there. Their rates were very reasonable. It was just a matter of it being too far."

"Meadowood Senior Living was very expensive, so that's what turned us off on this. We couldn't afford it. However, they have a wood shop where you could go down to. They have places where the men could go. They have a golf tournament and all kinds of games. There's a swimming pool, so that was nice. The staff were excellent. The community was nice, but it was just too expensive for us. We had a good dinner there. The food was good. I wouldn't mind eating there, it tasted very good. The place was very clean. They have people who pick up and clean the areas. Outside is nice, too. They were renovating two rows of the apartments that people moved out of, so that was good. There are a lot of chairs and places to sit down outside. The dining area is big enough for the people who live there. Most of the rooms were renovated. They had brand new appliances like refrigerators and dishwashers put in. Everything was tiled inside the kitchen. They take care of the place."