Ecumenical Retirement Community

For over 25 years, Ecumenical Retirement Community, located in Harrisburg, PA near Paxtang, has been offering quality care with different lifestyles such as Independent Living, Personal Care, Memory Support and Restorative Care.

The open arms of a warm, caring community await even the most active senior who seeks a more peaceful and manageable way of life. Our circle of independent living residents enjoys every comfort of home—without the burdens of home ownership. They delight in seeing familiar faces or meeting new ones as well as expanding current interests and learning new skills. It’s their choice, their lifestyle, their home.

Independent living at Ecumenical Retirement Community is an affordable alternative to the expense of buying into life care services at other senior living communities. Ours is an all-rental community with no purchase plan and an all-inclusive fixed monthly bill. We are the more cost effective senior living communities in Central Pennsylvania.

Our All-inclusive Independent Living Program Offers:

• The privacy of apartment-style living
• Three freshly prepared meals a day served restaurant style
• An all-inclusive rental fee that includes heat, air conditioning, electricity, basic cable
• A pet-friendly and welcoming community
• Weekly housekeeping, laundry and linen services
• Regular maintenance of common areas and outside grounds
• Diverse social and recreational activities
• Daily resident-led social events and happy hours
• Access to healthy-living wellness and fitness programs
• Onsite salon and spa services for men and women
• Freedom from the burdens of home maintenance
• Emergency response in the event of illness
• And more

Through the years, even our most active residents may experience a growing need for assisted living in day-to-day routines. At Ecumenical, we extend a compassionate helping hand where the focus is on personal care services in senior living. Our focus is to maintain these residents’ independence and dignity, while enriching the lives of those who call our community home.

Life with Our Personal Care Services includes:

• Aid with daily routines through assisted living and care
• The privacy of apartment-style retirement living
• Staff support 24 hours every day, including medical assistance
• Three chef-prepared meals a day served restaurant style
• An all-inclusive rental fee that includes heat, air conditioning, electricity, basic cable
• A pet-friendly and welcoming community
• Weekly housekeeping, laundry and linen services
• Scheduled transportation to appointments, shopping, errands, places of worship
• Diverse social and recreational activities throughout the week
• Accommodations for couples with different care needs to live together
• Healthy-living wellness and fitness programs led by our professional staff
• Onsite salon and spa services for men and women
• And more

Memory loss of loved ones can be one of the most challenging issues of aging. It can be particularly difficult for family members who find it harder to maintain relationships or spend quality time together with their loved ones. To best serve seniors and their families, we provide personalized therapeutic care for individuals with memory loss caused by Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. Caring for residents with Alzheimer’s means recognizing they are individuals, deserving of respect and dignity. We build on this belief through our unique dementia care program that strives to enhance the quality of each resident’s life. Despite the challenges of memory loss, we aim to help residents lead happy, fulfilling lives by participating in activities, sharing memories, contributing to a purpose and enhancing connections and loving relationships with their friends, families and neighbors.

Depending on the Stage of Memory Loss, our Memory Support Program Includes:

• Personalized support plans to match your loved one’s needs and preferences in a personal-care or secured neighborhood setting
• Caregivers trained in memory support techniques
• The Validation® communication method
• Brain fitness activities and memory games to provide fun as well as intellectual stimulation
• My Life Story projects to build our understanding of your loved one to in turn foster a better connection
• Staff support 24 hours every day, including access to medical assistance
• Three chef-prepared meals a day
• An all-inclusive rental fee that includes heat, air conditioning, electricity, basic cable
• Diverse social and recreational activities throughout the week
• Accommodations for couples with different care needs to live together
• Healthy-living wellness and specialized fitness programs led by our professional staff
• Onsite salon and spa services for men and women

Whether recovering from an illness or surgery or coping with a chronic condition, our action-oriented program in our Harrisburg senior living community helps maintain and support residents’ whole well-being. A specially trained team of dedicated professionals works with residents to develop an individual physical support plan with short- or long-term goals and encourages them daily to achieve those goals. In contrast to other care settings in assisted living facilities or nursing home care that cater to one’s physical or medical needs creating a culture of dependency, our physical support program—set in a personal-care environment—promotes and relies upon the residents’ involvement in their care.