Care home guides
Plain-English guides to choosing and paying for care in the UK, written from the published guidance of the Care Quality Commission, the NHS and GOV.UK. No care home can pay to appear in them.
- How to Choose a Care Home: A Step-by-Step UK Guide
A practical order of steps for choosing a care home in the UK: the needs assessment, shortlisting, what to look for on a visit and what to check before you sign. - How Much Does a Care Home Cost in the UK?
What drives care home fees in the UK, what the weekly fee does and does not include, why nursing and dementia care cost more, and how to check a fee against local prices. - CQC Ratings Explained
What Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement and Inadequate mean, the five key questions, and how recent a rating should be. - How to Pay for a Care Home
Council funding, the means test, NHS continuing healthcare, deferred payments and top-ups. - Dementia Care Homes
What a specialist dementia care home provides, and how to choose one. - Nursing Homes Explained
When someone needs nursing care, and how it differs from residential care. - Residential Care
What residential care includes and who it suits. - Respite Care
Short stays in a care home: how they work and how to arrange one.