Dementia care at home

If you are looking for home care for someone with dementia, the registers behind this directory can tell you who is registered to provide it, where they operate, and how long they have been registered. This page explains what those records mean, and what they cannot tell you, so you know how much weight to put on them.

Being registered for dementia support does not narrow the field

Of the 14,457 home care services registered with the Care Quality Commission in England, 11,386 are registered to support people living with dementia. That is 79% of them, across 5,202 separate providers.

This is the most useful thing to know before you start. A provider saying it supports people with dementia is close to standard, so it is a poor way to tell one agency from another. It records what the service is permitted to do, not how much dementia experience its carers have, whether it can staff the visit times you need, or how it handles a change in someone's condition. Those are questions for the provider.

Why the picture differs across the UK

Only the Care Quality Commission publishes the groups a service is registered to support. Care Inspectorate, Care Inspectorate Wales, Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority do not publish an equivalent field, so for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland this directory has no dementia information at all.

That absence is about record keeping, not about care. Home care services across all four nations support people with dementia. It does mean any UK directory offering you a filtered list of dementia providers is either showing you England only, or filling the gap with something other than the register.

What the register is genuinely good for

Confirming a provider is registered. Home care in the UK is regulated. Every provider listed here traces to a statutory register, and each listing links to the regulator's own record.
Seeing how long they have operated. The registration date is a matter of record, and a service registered for fifteen years is a different proposition from one registered last year.
Finding who covers a specific area. Home care is delivered in the home, so coverage is the constraint that matters most.

For guidance on dementia itself, and on what support someone is entitled to, the NHS and your local authority adult social care team are the right places to start. A local authority needs assessment is free to request and is the route to any funded support. This directory does not give care advice and does not assess quality.

Find registered home care providers near you

These are the areas with the most registered providers. Every UK nation, region, county and council area is covered from the directory index.