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Senior Living Offering All the Comfort and Convenience You Could Want

Featuring stylish Independent Living apartments and all-inclusive services, the senior living lifestyle at Lafayette frees you from home maintenance and daily chores, while allowing you to explore our vibrant array of fitness, recreational, and spiritual life opportunities.

Located in a beautiful park-like setting in Northeast Philadelphia and easily accessible from adjacent Montgomery County, PA, and nearby Bucks County, PA, our warm and welcoming retirement community has been a favorite choice of discerning seniors throughout the Philadelphia, PA, area for more than three decades.

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Enjoy Exceptional Value
There are many outstanding services and amenities included in our Independent Living monthly fee. You'll enjoy:

  • Senior living facility staff is available to you 24 hours a day
  • Housekeeping and linen service
  • Restaurant-style dining
  • Scheduled transportation services for nearby shopping and physician visits
  • Pastoral care/religious services 
  • Full Independent Living recreational calendar including movies, parties, games, and live entertainment
  • Senior living wellness/exercise programs

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Plus, our senior living facility offers these conveniences:

  • On-site physician services available by appointment
  • On-site country store, library, cafe, beauty salon, barbershop, and bank
  • Our status as a continuing care retirement community means that if your health needs should ever change you can obtain on-site personal care (similar to assisted living) or long-term care skilled nursing services without ever having to leave the community
  • A beautiful setting in Northeast Philadelphia with incomparable views of Pennypack Park
  • Minutes from neighboring Montgomery County, PA, and easily accessible from Bucks County, PA

Beautiful Surroundings
Located at 8580 Verree Road, Lafayette is located in the lovely Fox Chase section of Northeast Philadelphia, nestled amid the beauty of Pennypack Park. Our independent living community sits within several blocks of the border of Montgomery County, PA, and lies within just a few miles of many suburban locales including Cheltenham, Glenside, Jenkintown, Abington, Rockledge, and Huntingdon Valley. Our beautiful retirement community is also easily accessible from many parts of Bucks County, PA, including Bensalem and Southampton.

Contact Us Today to Learn More About Senior Independent Living

We welcome the opportunity to answer your questions, as well as provide a personal tour of our warm and welcoming senior living facility. Partnering with you as a trusted senior living resource is what our independent senior living sales coordinators do best. They can share important insight about the senior community lifestyle and how it can ideally complement your needs and desires. Call us today at 215-214-2877.

Need Directions?
Lafayette’s beautiful grounds are surrounded by Pennypack Park, a natural treasure renowned in Philadelphia for its magnificent woodlands, meadows, and fields. Located at 8580 Verree Road, Philadelphia, PA, Lafayette is situated near the intersection of Verree and Susquehanna roads in Northeast Philadelphia, minutes from Montgomery County and close to such suburban locales as Abington, Glenside, and Jenkintown. We’re also easily accessible from many major Bucks County locales including Bensalem, PA, and Southampton, PA. Get directions from your address.

Top 5 Reasons to Choose Our Independent Senior Living Lifestyle

Our senior living community offers a range of floorplans, so depending on your desire for space and privacy you can choose between studios and apartments of many different sizes. Lafayette offers studio, 1BR, and 2BR apartment floorplans that range from 355 to 1,004 square feet and feature bright, open layouts. Our apartments have many great features, with top highlights being their tasteful interior finishes done in an attractive neutral palette, newly renovated modern kitchens and bathrooms, ample storage, and important safety features like emergency pull cords, smoke detectors, and automatic sprinklers. 

In our retirement community, home maintenance will become a thing of the past. Our senior living community offers inclusive, “built-in” conveniences like weekly housekeeping, linen service, and trash removal, plus our grounds are beautifully maintained by professional landscapers throughout every season.

At Lafayette, you’ll likely have a fully equipped kitchen in your apartment, you can forgo the pots and pans—and after-dinner cleanup—every day or whenever you wish! You can enjoy a fresh, chef-prepared meal from a savory menu of choices that are served in a well-appointed dining room that has the ambiance of a fine restaurant. Additionally, you’ll find options for more casual dining via our country store with grab-and-go choices. At Lafayette, you’ll find a delicious, varied menu of fresh choices every day of the week.

The residents in our senior living community have the opportunity to cultivate or re-discover enjoyable hobbies and pastimes, explore local shopping and attractions around the Philadelphia area and beyond, and meet new friends. Whether you are looking for exercise and wellness opportunities, want to delve into the performing or fine arts, enjoy social gatherings, or desire a trip to the theater, you’ll find a packed calendar of programs and events. At Lafayette, our monthly activity calendar offers many events and activities, including live, on-site entertainment by Philadelphia-area vocalists, musicians, and other performers.

This advantage brings priceless peace of mind to residents and their families. Our senior living community has crucial safety features built into our apartments like safety rails, emergency pull cords, and sprinkler systems. Additionally, grab bars can be installed and personalized to each individual's needs. Our retirement community also has staff available around the clock should an emergency occur. Our affiliation with Redeemer Health gives us access to the expertise and resources of a trusted health system—a status that gives Lafayette residents great comfort and confidence. Also, as a continuing care retirement community, Lafayette can accommodate residents if or when their health care needs change by organizing a convenient and safe transition to on-site accommodations that can assist with personal care (similar to assisted living), rehabilitation after surgery, or skilled nursing.

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