Echo Lake Senior Living — Local services in Tredyffrin Township

I don't know if i can properly express how amazing EVERYONE at Echo Lake (EL) has been and especially Amanda on the IL side of things. My parents were transitioning to Independent Living and my mother (the primary caregiver for my father) had a terrible accident (NOT at EL) and has been hospitalized for several weeks.

My father is not able to live indepdently, so while they were only in the IL section for one night when this occurred, Amanada and the EL staff helped me coordinate home care until we could move him to the AL side several days later. They checked in regularly both with me and my father. They helped us move his belongings and set up his assisted care.

Dad is still in AL, while mom hopefully recovers and is able to join him in the AL community while she continues her recovery (or stays there permanently if necessary). Not having to worry about Dad's needs being met, his medications timely being taken and making sure he eats properly (he's got a bit of a sweet tooth) has been invaluable to free my sister and me up to coordiate my mother's more intensive care needs.

It has been such a pleasure working with Amanda and the EL family through all of this. We all wish the circumstances would have been different, but are so glad that Dad is able to receive the wonderful and compassionate care he needs and that they will be there for Mom when the time comes!

Thank you Amanda...

Echo Lake is a new 55 + Community that's being built right off of Route 29 in Malvern. The Echo Lake itself is actually a huge old Quarry that struck water and filled up at some point in the past decade or so. I went to see it yesterday, June 29th 2019, with my mom who will be moving there in the next month or so after construction is complete. It's an amazing building with probably 50 different types of apartment layouts and amazing amenities to include a couple restaurants, a bistro, a couple bars, exercise rooms, entertainment rooms including a pool hall, and many more things I'm not yet aware of.

It's very modern, and unfortunately it's not for the faint of wallet. I know it starts at around $5,000 a month, but that does include a lot of things such as 30 meals a month in one of the restaurants, most of utilities paid, free cleaning services, and much more. So if your retirement account is healthy, and you're ready to move into a community such as this, you might want to...

I came to visit a family friend and this was the first time that I’ve ever been at this community. I did feel that the place is very clean and anyone I interacted with was quite friendly. There are a few things, though as an occupational therapist noticed with some of the areas, where community gets together, for example, on the fifth floor happy hour room there are no chairs with arms, and since the community does have some compromised individuals, I think it would be safest that there would be availability for armchairs in order to decrease the chance for Any falls and injury, and also to increase the ease and independence of the individuals.

I did enjoy looking at all of the artwork created by the residence and some of the displays which were for an apparent recycling contest. And I did enjoy my stay with...