Above & Beyond Senior Living is a family-owned company in Allentown, PA, that's been running since 2007 and has three main communities called The Knights, Mountain View, and West End. Each place offers independent living, personal care, assisted living, memory care, Alzheimer's and dementia care, and respite care for folks who need a break or extra help. Employees there handle all kinds of jobs, like Administrative Assistant, Certified Nursing Assistant, Med-Tech and Personal Care Assistant, and Activity Coordinator. Residents get different kinds of help, such as medication reminders, dressing, personal hygiene, mobility help, grooming, continence management, and safety monitoring, with 24-hour staffing and emergency call systems in both private and companion suites, so someone's always ready to lend a hand if needed.
The care team coordinates with local nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and hospice if someone's health changes, though these extra services have their own costs. Residents can bring pets like cats or dogs, use ADA accessible showers, and pick from large or small rooms - there's studios, semi-private, and two-bedroom spaces, some with wall-to-wall carpeting or bistro views over courtyards. Meals are all made on-site, and there are two big dining rooms, snacks every day, weekly housekeeping and personal laundry, daily trash removal, and a beauty salon or barbershop for keeping up appearances. The layout has indoor and outdoor common areas, manicured gardens, a fenced Memory Lane area for folks with memory troubles, and parking on-site. Residents can spend time outdoors, help out with community service like BoxTops or making animal shelter treats, and go on planned trips to shops and casinos in a wheelchair-accessible bus.
Activities fill the week, from balloon volleyball and nature walks to Happy Hour, Bingo, card games, gardening, movie nights, dancing, current event talks, holiday parties, and family nights, plus offsite devotional services and daily morning worship led by local churches. There's a calendar of structured physical, social, and entertainment events to keep everyone active and connected. The staff pay attention to safety with emergency systems, staff pagers, monthly fire drills, a building-wide sprinkler system, and a Wander Guard System for residents who might wander or need extra supervision, with pendants that can call for fast staff assistance.
Respite care is available for short stays, and the community helps people age in place, even when needs increase, with incontinence care, assistance with moving, mechanical lifts for transfers, insulin shots, and blood sugar checks. Residents can smoke outdoors in set areas. Fees include a one-time community fee and a second person fee if sharing a room, with payment options like private pay, veteran's benefits, social security, and private insurance, and most care is all-inclusive but some skilled or advanced services cost extra. Above & Beyond Senior Living has a review score of 3.6 from 19 reviews and keeps a steady staff of 51 to 200 people. More information is at abseniorliving.com.
