Care and nursing homes in Dorset

Location

When choosing a care or nursing home, the location is important. You may want to continue to live near family and friends, or within easy access to local amenities.

Whatever is important to you, we have care and nursing homes across the country, conveniently located for you.

What’s more, none of our homes have restricted visiting hours, or require your friends and family to pre-book a visit; making it easy for those living close by to pop in for a cup of tea, or take you out for the day.

Level of care

There are varying types of residential care options that are tailored to your needs.

Our retirement villages combine self-contained apartments and residential care and nursing homes. This offers a retirement living environment for people at different stages of their lives; enabling you to live comfortably in the knowledge that specialist, 24/7 support is available whenever you need it.

All of our care and nursing homes offer respite stays, end-of-life and dementia care for older people tailored to individual needs. From the moment you enquire, our expert care teams will get to know you and build a bespoke care plan around your needs and desires.

Care team

When choosing your new home, it’s important to think about the team who will be providing your care. Are they well-trained to support your needs? Do you need nursing care?

All of our care homes have a team of highly-trained and experienced professionals who will support you whatever your level of need. They are passionate about what they do and are dedicated to ensuring you always feel confident and supported. We encourage you to visit our care homes so you can meet our friendly team and get a feel of what it would be like to live there.

Personal needs

Residential care can be the ideal solution for people with 24-hour care needs. However, when choosing a care home, you should make sure it is able to support you.

All of our care homes provide support to people living with dementia and Alzheimer’s, as well as providing bespoke palliative and end-of-life care. When you choose an Agincare care home, our care team will get to know you, understand your wishes and develop a care plan that provides a clear direction on the type of care you need.

Whether you require personal care, support with daily tasks, or help getting out and about, our care team will be on hand to support you in living as independently as possible.

Care Quality Commission

It is important when choosing your new home to ensure it is safe and regulated to a good standard. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and social care in England. They inspect and regulate different care services, including care and nursing homes, home care and live-in care. The CQC base their inspection on five key questions: Are they safe? Are they effective? Are they caring? Are they responsive to people’s needs? And are they well-led?

We’re proud that the CQC has rated and regulated all of our care and nursing homes to provide you with the confidence that we deliver high-quality care which is of a high standard.

All reports can be found on the CQC website.

Social life and activities

Each home has its own community with social activities, events and trips out on offer to help you maintain the type of life you had at home, whether that is quiet and relaxed or an active lifestyle.

We have designated Activities Coordinators in each care and nursing home who spend time getting to know you and will hand-pick activities based on what you and our other residents like. We have a different activity every day to provide choice, whether that’s a quiet painting activity or a group outing.

We recognise each resident is unique so there is opportunity to continue hobbies and interests with our activities teams who hand-pick activities based on your wishes.

All-inclusive fees

Find a care home that does it all for a single, weekly fee.

Our fully managed care home fees start at £895 per week. This price includes accommodation, 24-hour tailored residential or nursing care, all meals, laundry and a range of activities and outings. In contrast, our 24-hour live-in care packages can cost up to £1,100 per week excluding meals, activities and district nurse visits. Aside from the cost saving benefit, care and nursing homes also provide consistent support 24-hours a day.

An exact quote for our homes is dependent on a free, no obligation care assessment once you have visited the home of your choice.

Is a care or nursing home right for you?

If you feel a care or nursing home isn’t right for you, another care type may be more suitable.

We offer a complete pathway of care services, ranging from flexible home care visits to 24-hour live-in care. All of our care options are adaptable to suit people living with all levels of need, and our quick switching process means you can easily move from care at home to a care and nursing home, or vice versa, at any moment.

Unsure what type of care is best for you? Why not try our care options tool.