We thought that The Philadelphia Protestant Home was where we're going to end up going, but it turned out to be undesirable in terms of price and facilities compared to other places. It's been there a long time and has a German background. We visited there several times, and the people who lived there loved it. They had a pool, a bowling alley, crafts room, a greenhouse, and really nice gardens to walk in with picnic shelters and lots of benches and flowers. They had a wonderful entry area with a fireplace and an open room. The staff was very helpful and gave us great tours twice. The only thing that was off-putting was that it costs $77,000 a year for an extremely small room. My brother-in-law is 6'2" and only in his 70s, so it's like putting him in a closet. We didn't have the money and I didn't want to put him in a box, so that's the only reason we didn't move there. They had continuous care and a good program. It's very lively, and I liked it a lot.

Philadelphia Protestant Home is very clean and looks good. What I like about it is it’s reasonable with one-bedrooms priced around $80,000 or $90,000. I like it a lot better because it’s less money, and money is important. What I saw from the tour, the restaurants and the activities looked good. The people I talked to were good people.

I visited Philadelphia Protestant Home because they had a life alert for the residents. It was awesome. We were there for just a short period of time, and I just spoke to one gentleman, but it was really like a hotel. I was very impressed with it. They had a bowling alley in there. They had a swimming pool. They had everything. It was very beautiful. They were excellent. They were like family. I was really very impressed with how caring and informative they were. Everybody was nice all the way down to the security guards. They were very helpful. I was also impressed that they served meals there for a cost, and their meals were made every day which was really nice.

We had a nice visit at the independent living unit of Philadelphia Protestant Home. They had a lot of activities. They had nice spacious rooms. They introduced us to several members of their staff and they were all very nice. Some of the residences had balconies. They also had sunrooms/inner garden and they had a little sitting areas outside. I would recommend them to others.

When it came to receive extra care for my mother, I would have done anything to keep her out of a retirement home. Since my father had passed away, I had become the decision maker of her future. We looked around at different places in Philadelphia, but I wanted her to be somewhere that she would feel at home. Then I found the Philadelphia Protestant Home. The people were so nice as soon as we walked in and we felt very welcomed. We looked at different packages and picked the one that best suited our needs, and medicare covered just about all of it. Our favorite feature was that she didn't receive a little room, she received a miniature home. She had everything she needed, even her own bathroom. I was afraid of how she would react to the food, since I have heard of bad experiences with the cooking in places like this, but even I enjoyed the food! My mother has her own meal plan where she could eat three meals a day and snacks like muffins in between. She even made her own group of friends with the other residents at the Protestant home and they did numerous activities to keep everybody involved. My mother passed away in November of 2010, but I know that she enjoyed the last few months of her life. She was surrounded by her new friends, whom she referred to as her family. I was able to visit her whenever I wanted and they kept us very involved in her daily schedules and medical problems. I am glad my mother had the experience that she did at the Protestant Home, because it changed the way that I think about retirement homes. I would definitely recommend them to anybody.