Types of care secondary heading

Personal care

Often referred to as residential homes, these homes provide help with personal care such as dressing and supervising medication, they do not provide constant nursing care.

Nursing care

Often called nursing homes, they provide personal and nursing care 24 hours a day for people who are bedridden, very frail or have a medical condition or illness that requires regular attention from nursing staff.

Dual Registered Homes

Some homes provide personal and nursing care. The advantage being that a resident can simply upgrade their level of care if they need to rather than having to move homes.

Dementia care

Homes providing dementia care have an additional category of registration (DE) and are specialised to provide this type of care.

Respite care

A stay in a care home does not have to be permanent. You may stay for a while to give your carer a break or to enable you to recover from an illness or minor operation.