Care Homes, Sheltered Housing and Residential Homes in Somerset

Welcome to Help with Elderly Care in Somerset, we have brought together a comprehensive care homes guide in order to help you search and locate a care provider near you. Negating the minefield of locating appropriate and affordable care services in Somerset can be a difficult task, which is why Help with Elderly Care in Somerset is here to assist you.

Whether you are looking for sheltered housing, a private care home or a council care home in Somerset, our guide can help you find the right residential care. Accommodation for the elderly is available for long-term care, respite care or even just for elderly day care.

A care home in Somerset is often the first step when an aged relative or parent requires a greater level of full-time day care than can be provided by family or home care services. Residential care homes in Somerset are usually designed to provide as much as a home-like environment as possible, although they have to meet care homes standards, and feature many disability aids to help their elderly residents. Such things as bath rails, sit in shower cubicles and ramps make care homes a safer and easier environment for an old person. A care home is usually a suitable place for a senior citizen who requires some assistance with basic tasks

such as dressing, bathing and getting around.

Care Assistants provide professional and compassionate 24-hour senior care, but medical healthcare is more limited than a nursing home. All quality care homes in Somerset will ensure that a care plan is designed to meet the care needs of an individual resident.

If your elderly relative is suffering from Alzheimer’s then you may be considering a specialist dementia care home in Somerset. These types of homes have staff specially trained to minimize the anxiety and stress that dementia sufferers can experience. The care facility is also likely to have design features that assist in managing dementia-care.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulates standards for care homes in Somerset and across England. To find a local authority or private care home in Somerset visit our directory of registered care homes.

If a care home has an RDB rating, this means that they have been independently assessed against a set of quality standards. Although the rating may provide an indication of quality, it cannot be used as a measure to compare care homes in Somerset if not all care homes under consideration have undertaken the assessment.

In addition to our directory, we have brought together concise and informative guidance on how you qualify for local authority funding for care, what kind of help with care you could access, and where to go for advice on finding a specialist care home in Somerset.