Help with finding care homes

Understanding the terms

Types of service

Care homes are residential/nursing care services for younger adults and older people. There are different types of care home:

• Care home only
  A home that provides physical and emotional care to residents who are no longer able to be cared for in their own homes, but who do not need professional assistance on a 24-hour basis. Nursing support is provided by community nursing services.
• Care home with nursing
  A home that provides 24-hour registered nursing services to residents who are very frail and need professional nursing assistance on a frequent and continuing basis.
• Care home not providing medicines or medical treatment
  A care home where no medical or clinical intervention takes place. The service is based on the power of prayer.

Types of care

• Old age
  Old age not falling within any other category.
• Drugs
  Past or present drug dependence.
• Alcohol
  Past or present alcohol dependence.
• Learning disability
  Learning disability is defined as a significant impairment of intellectual functioning, or significant impairment of adaptive/social functioning.
• Physical disability
  Any physical disability including inability to walk or co-ordinate ones movements.
• Sensory impairment
  Any sensory impairment including sight and hearing deficiencies.
• Dementia
  An acquired organic disease affecting an older person. The disease is characterised by deterioration in mental capacity and leads to decline in psychological processes such as linguistic ability, learning, memory and thought.
• Mental disorder
  Mental illness, arrested or incomplete development of mind, psychopathic disorder and any other disorder or disability of the mind under the Mental Health Act 1983, excluding learning disability or dementia.
• Terminally ill
  Terminal care is an important part of palliative care and usually refers to the management of patients during their last few days, weeks or months of life. It is delivered to people who are admitted into care homes for whom it has been assessed that curative care is not possible or not appropriate and from which death can be expected.

Using Search

Search for a care home by type of service, type of care or region/area. You can search using just one of the options or you can combine them. For example:

Search for a "care home with nursing"

OR

Search for a "care home with nursing" that provides care for those with a "physical disability"

OR

Search for a "care home with nursing" that provides care for those with a "physical disability" in the "Eastern: All" region". You can refine your search further by selecting a specific area in the Eastern region such as "Eastern: Bedford". View the CSCI region and local office details.

Hold the Ctrl key (or Apple key) to select more than one type of service or type of care.

Instead of searching by region or area, you can choose to search for care homes that are a certain distance from a particular postcode. Just enter the full postcode into the box provided then select the distance.

Next click search.

Search will pull up a list of care homes that match the options you specified.

Click on any name listed to read further details about the care home.