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Care homes
Types of care home
Care homes are registered with the Care Inspectorate to provide different kinds of care:
- Care homes that provide personal care offer help with washing, dressing and giving medication.
- Care homes that provide nursing care have at least one qualified nurse on duty 24 hours a day to carry out nursing tasks. Personal care is provided too.
- Some care homes are registered for a specific care need, like dementia.
- Residential care homes provide health support from members of a visiting healthcare team – like a GP, community nurse or physiotherapist.
The information was last updated on: 11th April 2023
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Care homes
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Paying care home fees
- Contract routes
- Capital limits
- Standard rates
- Personal and nursing care in care homes
- Additional charges (top-up fees)
- Personal expenses allowance and savings disregard
- Liable relatives
- Treatment of income
- Selling your home
- Treatment of your home
- Property disregard
- Deprivation of capital
- Deferred payment
- Complaints about care home funding decisions
- What to do if your care home closes
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Paying care home fees