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."

"Please, please think twice before putting a loved one in this facility. I had a friend that was losing her battle with cancer and unfortunately she spent the last days of her life in this hell hole. The staff here are absolutely horrific! They could not care less about human life. What my friend had to endure in her last days I will never forget because of these people. They would leave her sitting in her own feces and urine for hours without changing her. She had bed sores so bad that they were infected because they were too lazy to rotate her. When I visited her two days before she died she was crying out in so much pain because they had not given her pain medication. She was suffering!  She had not eaten since morning and she was soaking wet with urine and feces in her adult diaper. I was disgusted and crying from that shere shock of how these people had treated my friend. I immediately went to the nurses station and there was a doctor sitting there reading a patient's chart, I was crying and I told him what was going on and he couldn't even care less. A Charge Nurse came over and I again explained the situation.  She said that she would send someone in there right away. I sat and waited with my friend in her room for 20 minutes and no one showed up. I put on a pair of sterilized gloves and then proceeded to clean her myself. Tears falling from my eyes looking at the bed sores as my friend was wailing in pain. This place needs to be closed down! Shame on you! I will spread the word to everyone that I know to never go to this facility even if their life depended on it. I am now left reminded of my friends last days on this earth of the pain that she suffered not only from the cancer but from the hands of these so-called "Caregivers"  as one of the most god-awful experiences I have ever witnessed in my life."

"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."

"Always clean - no nursing home smell. Staff is very involved and caring with the residents. Transferred my loved from another home and I am extremely pleased with the care they are getting. Staff is always kind and sensitive."

"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."

"Mahoning Valley staff are competent knowledgeable and compassionate beyond measure. It is obvious that employees in all departments are not here for a paycheck rather here to enrich the lives of others by providing compassionate care to all people that reside here!!! Fabulous employees, clean environment. Highly recommend! "

"I went to Walden III for a tour. From what I've seen, it seems like an excellent facility. Everything looked new and well-maintained. There didn't seem to be anything out of place. We spoke to one of the residents just by chance, and she had nothing but good things to say about it, including the food. She said that's what she was waiting for. She was waiting for dinner because she said the food was so good. It's an assisted living. I believe they even have memory care for people with Alzheimer's. There were two staff that I met with directly, and they were both very, very knowledgeable and seemed very caring. It was only about 45 minute to an hour tour, but they covered everything and answered all our questions."

"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."

"The Willows of Living Branches stands out because of the attentiveness of the staff. At both times we were there, there was a meal, so they were gathered in the dining room, having their meal. A lot of them were conversing and dialoging with their neighbors and that was nice to see. They have a beautiful courtyard with a garden. They have church services for non-denominational on Sundays. They have a nice indoor birdcage-like all glass with lots of parakeets that the residents watch. I know that they have a variety of activities. They even were growing chicks when we were there, so the residents were able to watch them grow and hatch. I spoke with the chef, and he went over the menu with us. I was happy with the variety and options that they offer. They have a standard menu to choose from, and then they have a special. If you don't like the special, you can always ala carte it, which was nice because not everybody likes seafood that day, and so their menu options were plentiful. The community size was really good for a 92-year-old. It wasn't big, so there was a limit to the amount of walking you have to do. The character of the community was different than your average community because it was built in an old mansion. So, there was a lot of history and traditional-looking rooms and windows that gave it a lot of character. "