PRIVATE CARE PROVIDERS

UK Care Homes

• Abbey Lea Care Home - Providing elderly care near Selby in North Yorkshire. Details of location, services, and an enquiry page.
• Ailsa Lodge Nursing Home - Information about family run home near Bangor. Includes summaries of official inspection reports, job opportunities and funding requirements.
• Andover Nursing Home - A purpose-built care home managed by an experienced matron, who is supported by a full team of qualified nurses. Hampshire.
• Ascot Nursing Home - Residential nursing care home in Ascot, Berkshire.
• Ascot Residential Homes Ltd - Information on the care and facilities. Berkshire.
• Associated Nursing Services - Health care group providing nursing centres throughout the UK. Services, amenities and photos for each facility; funding information; employment opportunities.
• Avondale Nursing Home - Details about this registered charity which provides care and rehabilitation for persons with long term mental problems (excluding dementia) in the UK.
• Barchester Healthcare - Nursing Homes - Throughout the UK nursing and Elder Care Homes for laypersons and professionals.
• Beach Homes - Private retirement and nursing homes for the elderly at Seaham Harbour, Co. Durham in the north east of England. List of services and amenities, photos and contact information.
• Betsyclara House - Nursing Home for elderly people in Maidstone, Kent.
• BMS Homes - Residential and rehabilitative care within the settings of four residential homes in North Lincolnshire.
• Bradeley Village - Social housing complex for active older people. Photographs, history, information on residents and how to apply. Staffordshire.
• Brantwood Residential Home - Large attractive Victorian house situated in Sandbach, England. Just a few minutes walk from the town centre. It has 18 en-suite bedrooms to cater for all needs.
• Broad Oak Manor Nursing Home - Range of care services for the elderly.
• Broadland Park - Home for the elderly outlines its facilities and how it offers privacy, independence, peace and quiet.
• Brookdale Healthcare - Provides residential care for the elderly, specialist nursing care for younger disabled adults and for individuals with autism. Homes are in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.
• Care Unlimited Group - Offering the finest possible standards of flexible and individual care, whatever your requirements.
• Care Unlimited Group Of Homes, Surrey UK - Family-run providers of long-term mental care for the elderly and younger people including those with learning difficulties. Two nursing homes and one rest home.
• Casa-Mia - Information about family-run residential home for the elderly in Worcestershire.
• Castle Green Care Home for the Elderly - In Lower Broughton, Salford, England. Site describes care policy and facilities, and includes contact information.
• Cedar House - Offers residential and daycare for the elderly. Includes background, news, and photo gallery. Sunderland.
• Church View Homes - Nursing and residential care for the elderly in East Lancashire
• Cleveland House - Care home for young adults with learning disabilities (Broadstairs, Kent). General information, facilities, activities, news, awards and links.
• Close Care Retirement - Offers information on close care and assisted living homes for the elderly. Links to sales information for properties registered with the organisation.
• The Court Group of Residential Care Homes - Four residential homes in the South West of England.
• Crowstone Manor Residential Home - An attractive, spacious residential home for the elderly near the sea front in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex.
• Dovercourt House - A private residential home for the elderly located in Harwich, Essex.
• The Downs House - The Rogers family outlined the facilities and services they offer at a home for the elderly in Hampshire.
• Dresden House Residential Care Home - Situated in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 300 yards from both the seafront and shops. Residential care home for elderly ladies.
• Fairby Grange - Description of residential care home for the elderly in Kent including photos of rooms, gardens and communal places.
• Falkland Lodge - Located in Torquay, Devon. A well established residential home registered and accredited with Devon County Council.
• Four Seasons Health Care - Nursing, residential and other specialist care centres in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
• Foxhill Manor Nursing Home - Services offered at home providing respite and long term care in West Haddon, Northamptonshire.
• Friends of the Elderly - Providing a combination of nursing, residential and dementia care. Information on clubs, nursing homes and donation information.
• Goldcrest Residential Home - Home in Weymouth, Dorset shows pictures and describes the facilities and atmosphere.
• Grange Hall Care Home - Nursing, respite and residential care home for the elderly, located in Drygrange, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Photograph, a description of services and amenities, contact information, and fees.
• Greentree Enterprises Ltd - Offers index of homes, services, and frequently asked questions.
• Hainault Residential Home - Located in Palmers Green, London for the elderly of both sexes unable to cope living by themselves. Pictures, services and amenities, map, contact information, employment and resident application forms, and two computer games.
• Hillcrest Care Ltd - An independent private sector provider of care services. The range of services includes residential children's homes with education, homes for people with learning disabilities and foster care.
• Homebeech - Organisation with three homes in Bognor Regis explains the services it can offer.
• Homelink Day Respite Care - Provided by St Augustine of Canterbury in Whitton, Twickenham, Middlesex. Includes a map, and a link to the church web page.
• Homes for All - UK - Contact information for the residential and nursing homes in the UK which have registered with this site.
• Inchmarlo House - Nursing home and retirement community on Royal Deeside.
• Ingham Old Hall - Residential care home for the elderly, near Norwich, Norfolk.
• Jewish Blind and Disabled (JBD) - Charity providing sheltered living housing for visually and physically disabled people. Has several housing projects in London, a day care centre and a school education programme.
• Kersal Mount Nursing Home - UK nursing home for long and short term occupancy.
• Larkfield Care - Details of accommodation and facilities at home in Colwyn Bay.
• Little Acre Care Home - Small care home for elderly people, situated on the seafront in Cumbria. Offers long term and respite care. Photographs and details of facilities.
• Living With Care - Residential care homes for the elderly in the Midsomer Norton area.
• LRH Homes - Organisation running several nursing homes in Surrey details their locations and services offered.
• Martham Lodge - A residential care home for the elderly in the heart of the Norfolk Broads. Offering information on specialist care for those with dementia and altzhimers.
• MCCH Society Limited - Provider of housing and support services for the profoundly disabled. Supplies local authorities and works with trusts. Reports, training and employment opportunities.
• Meadow Lodge - Home for the elderly near Selby in North Yorkshire. Description of building and setting, facilities, and contact details for enquiries.
• Melior Consulting - Offers consultation and advice on running a successful care home business.
• Mellor Nook - Residential care home for the elderly situated on the Cheshire and Derbyshire border at the edge of the Peak District.
• Methodist Homes - Methodist charity and housing association providing a range of care services for older people around the UK.
• MTBeds UK Nursing Homes Directory - A searchable database of nursing, residential and care homes throughout the UK.
• Norfolk Care Homes - Information about care homes in Norfolk, UK.
• Nursing Homes Directory - Nursing home ebrochures containing photos, descriptions and contact information giving people an informed choice.
• Parkview Care Homes - Residential nursing care for adults with mental health problems.
• Priory Residential Nursing Home - Wye Valley, Wales.
• Quantum Care - Quantum Care is a provider of residential care homes in Hertfordshire, for the care of elderly people.
• Queen Margarets Nursing Home - This Scarborough nursing home provides the elderly or infirm with day care, respite and long term assisted living and palliative care.
• Riccall House Care Home - Care facilities for the elderly. Information about the home and its services, location map and contacts.
• Robertson Nursing Home - Located in Surrey, the home is registered to care for people over the age of sixty, who need nursing care atmosphere. Either short term care, re-habilitation or long term continuing care.
• Rosebank Care Home - Details of accommodation and services for the elderly in Bampton, Oxfordshire.
• Rosefern Residential Home - Specialists in learning disabilities for over 15 years. Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
• Rustington Convalescent Home - Offers short-term nursing care. Includes history, facilities, fees, and testimonials. West Sussex, England.
• Sanctuary Care Nursing Homes - Residential and day nursing home care in the UK.
• Spratslade House Residential Care Home (UK) - Information about a residential care home for the elderly in Dresden, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
• St David's Nursing Home - Nursing and residential home for the elderly in Sheringham, Norfolk
• St Quentin Residential Homes Ltd - Nursing and residential homes in Newcastle-under-Lyme, and Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Includes cost and description of each facility.
• Stafford Lodge Care Home - Nursing residential home specialised in providing care for the elderly, infirm, living with mental illness or physically disabled.
• Stanbridge House Residential Care Home - A residential carehome caring for the elderly:Long and short term care:Respite care:Located in West Sussex
• Stoneham House - Residential home for the elderly on the edge of Southampton details accommodation and facilities.
• Supreme Care Homes - Retirement, day care and nursing homes in the north east of England.
• Sutton Mill Residential Home - Care home in Stalham, Norfolk.
• Sutton-in-the-Elms - Private nursing and residential home outlines its facilities, qualifications and contact information.
• Tameside Care Group - Provides nursing, residential and day care. Describes its services and care homes with information about recruitment. Manchester.
• Thorne House Services - Specialist organisation in South Yorkshire providing services for young adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Information about residential, day, and vocational training services.
• Torbay Residential Homes - Organisation describes residential nursing homes for the elderly in Torbay and Devon
• Towell House - Charitable trust residential home explains its purpose of bringing care and accommodation to older people in a residential area of East Belfast.
• Uplands Nursing Home - Residential nursing care home in Fareham, Hampshire. Provides specialist nursing care for people who have serious enduring mental health problems.
• Vine House Rest Home - Lancashire home for the elderly outlines features and benefits including home cooking, regular outings, special diets, in-house activities.
• Walshaw House Residential Home - Based in coastal town of Rhyl, North Wales. Small, family run residential home with caring and committed staff.
• Watford House Rest Home - Residential rest home for the elderly in New Mills, Stockport, UK. Registered with Derbyshire social services, placed in quiet residential area. Long term and respite care.
• Wellington House Nursing Home - In Stowmarket, Suffolk. Explains its facilities and environment, and includes a newsletter.
• White Lodge and St Helens House - Family run residential care homes overlooking Boscombe Chine gardens, Bournemouth, Dorset.
• Whiteley Village - Housing for the elderly. The village is a self contained community and consists of cottages, residential homes and a nursing home.
• Whiteoak Court Nursing Home - Photographic tour of nursing home for the elderly in Chislehurst, Kent.
• Willett Lodge - Residential home for the elderly in Worthing, West Sussex describes its facilities, aims and objectives.

• Abbycon.com's Directory of Home Care - Links to care providers and information.
• ACP Home Care Guide - American College of Physicians sponsored guidelines for treatment of advanced cancer at home. Options for download, online viewing chapters including caregiving, cancer pain, shortness of breath, and hospice.
• Caregivers Advisory Panel - Collects, quantifies and interprets facts, opinions and needs of family caregivers to enable health care products manufacturers, service providers, and policy makers to gain insight for their decision making.
• Caregiversguide.com - Search for long term care facilities, home care agencies, adult day care, and alternative facilities.
• Home Care Helper - Resources for home care providers on planning ethics, telehealth and elder suicide.
• Home Health Aide Finders - Place for families to find, contact and hire home health aides in geographical area from database of aides. Information on list, registration, and contacts.
• Home Health Provider - Resource for professionals in the managed care industry. Includes information on home health care, rehabilitation, geriatric care, infusion therapy and related topics.
• Home Healthcare Solutions Provider - Directory providing information, products, and services for patients and families seeking home healthcare.
• Kansas Home Care Association (KHCA) - Nonprofit member organization providing leadership, support, advocacy, and services. Information on education, events, directory, and contacts.
• National Association for Home Care (NAHC) - Trade association representing the interests and concerns of home care agencies, hospices, home care aide organizations, and medical equipment suppliers.
• National Private Duty Association - Consists of organizations that provide medical and non-medical private duty home care services. Includes membership information, calendar, news, and directory.
• SeniorMag.com - National Directory of U.S. Home Care and Health Care Service Providers - Lists many home care companies who provide services to senior citizens.
• Wisconsin Homecare Organization - Statewide trade association for home health care providers. Includes information for consumers.

Assisted Living Links

• Adult Day Care Consultants - This site presents, how to manuals, and consulting on adult day care and assisted living facilities and operations.
• AdultCareProviders.com - A nationwide directory of nursing homes and assisted living centers.
• Affordable Home Care Agency - Information on the staff of professional caregivers provided in Northern California at an affordable cost.
• AlertOne Services, Inc. - Provides assisted living facilities with wireless emergency response systems.
• ALFA Online - Provides consumer information, a searchable database of facilities, links, and information for providers.
• Alternative Solutions in Long Term Care - Offers information and resources regarding recreation therapy and social work in the long term care industry.
• American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging - A national nonprofit organization representing 5,000 not-for-profit nursing homes, retirement communities, assisted living residences and senior housing facilities for the elderly.
• Assist Guide - Nationwide assisted living directory
• Assisted Living On-Line - An assisted living and senior housing directory detailing various options available throughout the U.S. and Canada. Includes useful senior-related resources and senior housing properties for sale.
• Assistedliving.com - Housing and living options to assist elderly Americans maintain independence within their home communities.
• BUPA Care Homes - Sheltered housing and assisted living development with management of over 245 homes around the UK.
• Canada's Thecareguide.com - Canada's guide to seniors' housing and care services including retirement homes, nursing homes, home health care, adult lifestyle retirement communities, supportive housing and palliative hospice care.
• Care Link USA - Information resource and referrals to nursing homes and assisted living environments in and around Minnesota
• Care Pathways - Directory for assisted living, alzheimers care, retirement and nursing homes.
• CarePathways.com - Reviews, ratings and rankings of sites dealing with senior care and housing options. Extensive educational resources to assist decision makers. Helping you find solutions for elder care.
• CareScout - Quality-of-care ratings and discounts on nursing homes, assisted living facilities and home health agencies, plus information on long-term care insurance.
• Culture Change Now - Challenges nursing homes to rethink the impersonal medical model of caring for our elders and adopt a social model, creating vibrant, elder-friendly communities to live in.
• Directory of Assisted Living Facilities - Senior housing list, by state, compiled by ElderNet.
• Easy Living - Provides Lifeline emergency medical alarm systems, as well as coordinates care management, home health care, and prescription saving options.
• Elder Care Referral Services - Provides advice to families who need help locating quality retirement or care facilities for elderly relatives in Sacramento.
• Eldersearch.com - Scheduled chats to assist seniors and caregivers, free consultations and nationwide assistance with locating senior housing. Locate senior care services on the internet.
• The Information Source for Adult Day Centers - A newsletter written specifically for the owners and operators of US adult day care centers.
• Informed Decisions, Inc. - Caregiving and Elder Care Issues - Eldercare resources for family caregivers. Information about long term care, home health care, Assisted living, and nursing homes.
• Innovative Healthcare Consultants - Provides senior care case management by assisting older people and their families with long-term care arrangements and referrals to community service resources.
• Life Care Services - A leading developer and manager of continuing care, assisted living retirement communities throughout the United States.
• LifeStream Elder Care Professionals - Professionals offering help on eldercare law, assisted living, elder law.
• LivHOME - Offers programs to help elders live independently in their own homes. Services and stories.
• Long Term Care - Contains information about long term care and asset protection.
• Long Term Care Provider.com - Information for caregivers and professionals in the post-acute and long-term care industry on assisted living, DME, DMERC, nursing, medical equipment, rehabilitation facilities, hospice and dementia care
• Long Term Care Services - This site includes community resources, FAQs, and a glossary of commonly used terms. This facility is located in Ithica, New York.
• LTC Info - Informs physicians and other practitioners about clinical and management issues related to institutional long term care, both residential and short-stay postacute.
• Marwood Rest Home - An 87 bed long term care facility located in a residential setting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Momiji Health Care Society - Assisting Canadians, primarily senior citizens of Japanese-Canadian descent, to live independently in their own homes as long as possible by arranging for services when needed.
• National Center for Assisted Living - The NACL, part of the American Health Care Association, provides educational resources, news and consumer information.
• National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform - A consumer and advocacy group for long term care.
• New LifeStyles Online - A complete guide to senior housing and care options, listing all state licensed senior housing facilities in the major metropolitan areas nationwide.
• NHS Care - Provides medical long term care help for seniors including estate planning, asset protection and elder law information.
• Nursing Home Information - Information provided to answer nursing home questions, including Medicare, Medicaid, patient rights, abuse, survey results, regulations, and complaint handling.
• Pathway Health - Information on planning and development of assisted living, long term care, CEU's, regulatory compliance, survey and crisis management, and PPS medicare.
• A Place For Mom, Inc - Referral service for those choosing assisted living, nursing homes, and retirement communities.
• Red Light/Green Light- Keys to Successful Assisted Living - An informative article that discusses the key developmental,marketing, financial and operational aspects of a successful assisted living facility.
• Senior Housing Net - Find housing for yourself or someone you love. View photos, maps, floor plans and virtual tours of assisted living facilities, retirement communities, and nursing homes.
• Senior Housing Networking Community - A free online senior housing/assisted living community for developers, owner/operators and others involved in development, marketing, management and finance.
• Senior Living Guide - Free referral source and contact listings for helping the elderly find appropriate living arrangements in the Florida area.
• Senioresidences.com - Online source for assisted living and nursing homes in Canada and the U.S.
• Support Aged Care - Peer support for those who use Aged Care services and information from Australian based facilities.
• Therapeutic Activity Certification - Basic and advanced classes to train individuals to conduct and lead activities in long term care facilities.
• TLChoices, Inc. - Browse through our extensive list of senior housing.
• The Truth About Nursing Homes - Information from Jeff Danglo LPN, LSW of Eldercare Consulting about how nursing homes operate and practical advice to receive good care. Medicaid, Medicare, choosing a nursing home, staff, messageboard, eldercare consulting.
• Virtual Retirement Index - Information on retirement communities in the US and Canada.
• Warning about use of psychotropic drugs - This is a warning about the use of psychotropic drugs in nursing homes and the importance of Power of Attorney. Also includes Chicago Tribune story concerning this topic.
• Woodlands - Central Maine's retirement community offering independent and assisted living options.

Hospice Links

• Arohanui Hospice - Palmerston North, New Zealand. Provides care wherever people need it; at home, in hospital, in rest homes or at Arohanui Hospice.
• Blessed Gérard's Hospice - Objective is to care and counsel persons afflicted with AIDS or HIV. Based in Mandeni, South Africa
• David Kessler and Elisabeth Kubler Ross - The site includes hospice and end of life resources with frequently asked questions about death and dying as well as a hospice locator and helpful articles.
• Hospice - Provides information on hospice care, terminal illness, end of life issues, caregiving, and grief. Includes FAQ and online donation facility.
• Hospice Africa - Helping to establish Hospice Care in Africa, to provide or support the provision of palliative care to terminally ill cancer patients in the African setting.
• Hospice Foundation of America - A not-for-profit organization that provides leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care.
• The Hospice Home Page - Useful ideas and topics of interest for hospice organizations. Monitored by Dale Larson, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of the Counseling Psychology Program at Santa Clara University.
• Hospice Patients Alliance - Extensive resources to help patients and families obtain the very best hospice services and resolve problems.
• Hospice Perspective Medicale - Provides specialist palliative care in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Description of their services, frequently asked questions, and a list of ways to help. [English, French, and Romanian].
• Ina and Jack Kay Center for Supportive Care - Hospice in the Hadassah medical center in Jerusalem.
• Jeevodaya - Chennai, India. For terminally ill cancer patients. Describes facilities, services, and donation needs.
• San Pablo Hospice Group - Provides free professional home-based hospice care in San Pablo City, Philippines.
• St Luke's Hospice - Charity caring for terminally ill patients in and around Cape Town, South Africa. History of the organization, news, description of their services, events calendar, and how to help.
• Vale Hospice International - Serves cancer patients at an advanced stage of their illness. Description of their services, stories of some of their patients, and how to help. Kiev, Ukraine. [English and Russian].
• Willen Hospice - Registered charity specialising in care for people living with cancer and life limiting illnesses. Overview of the establishment along with details of its services, admission, and location. Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.