Residential care homes
Types of care homes
Residential care helps people who cannot manage, even with a lot of support, to live in their own homes. There are two sorts of care homes:
- Nursing homes where there needs to be constant involvement of, or supervision by, a qualified nurse.
- Residential homes where care is provided all day and all night but there does not need to be a qualified nurse present all the time.
There are different types of care homes to support different needs, depending on things such as people's age or particular disability. All care homes, whether they provide residential or nursing care, have to be registered and regularly inspected by the Care Quality CommissionOpens in new tab.
Please contact us if you think you might need to move into a care home. We will make sure you are aware of other support which could help you stay in your own home for longer if that would be better.