How many home care services provide dementia care?

11,657 services are registered to support dementia, which is 74% of the 15,668 the CQC categorises this way. These categories are an English thing: the Care Inspectorate does not publish them, so Scottish services are absent from this count rather than uninterested. On its own that narrows almost nothing, so treat it as a starting list rather than a shortlist.

Does being registered for dementia care mean a service specialises in it?

No. Registration sets what a service is permitted to provide, not what it does most days. 97% of these services are also registered for elderly care, and the typical one holds 6 registrations in all. Exactly one service in the whole group is registered for this and nothing else. Ask an agency how many of its current clients have needs like yours.

Are dementia care services rated well?

5,484 of the 11,657 carry a published CQC rating, and 89% of those are Good or Outstanding, including 253 rated Outstanding. 599 require improvement. A rating covers the whole service, not this specialism on its own.

How do I find dementia care near me?

Start from your town rather than the national list, because availability is local and an agency registered for this may not have capacity where you live. Every service here comes from the public register, and contacting one costs nothing: we take no fee and no commission.

Dementia care at home

11,657 home care services across England and Scotland are registered with the Care Quality Commission to support someone living with memory loss or confusion. Before you use that as a shortlist, it is worth knowing how much it actually narrows things, because the honest answer is different for every condition.

How much this narrows it

Nearly every home care agency registers for this: 11,657 of the 15,668 services the CQC categorises, which is 74%. On its own it narrows almost nothing.

registered for dementia care and nothing else, out of 11,657

97%

are also registered for elderly care

specialisms the typical one holds

A service registers for everything it may lawfully provide, not everything it is good at. So treat this list as the agencies allowed to help, then ask each one the questions that actually separate them: how many of their current clients have this, who would be coming, and what happens when that person is off.

Twelve questions to ask an agency →

What the CQC makes of them

5,484 of these 11,657 services carry a published rating, which is 47%. The rest have not been inspected since registering, which is not a mark against them.

253

Outstanding

4,624

Good

599

Requires improvement

Inadequate

England only, and here is why. The Care Inspectorate records every Scottish home care service as supporting “Adults” and nothing more specific, so none of the 2,398 Scottish services can appear on this page. That is a gap in the Scottish record rather than in the services. Browse home care in Scotland →

Dementia care by area

Other types of care

Dementia care: questions people ask

How many home care services provide dementia care?: 11,657 services are registered to support dementia, which is 74% of the 15,668 the CQC categorises this way. These categories are an English thing: the Care Inspectorate does not publish them, so Scottish services are absent from this count rather than uninterested. On its own that narrows almost nothing, so treat it as a starting list rather than a shortlist.
Does being registered for dementia care mean a service specialises in it?: No. Registration sets what a service is permitted to provide, not what it does most days. 97% of these services are also registered for elderly care, and the typical one holds 6 registrations in all. Exactly one service in the whole group is registered for this and nothing else. Ask an agency how many of its current clients have needs like yours.
Are dementia care services rated well?: 5,484 of the 11,657 carry a published CQC rating, and 89% of those are Good or Outstanding, including 253 rated Outstanding. 599 require improvement. A rating covers the whole service, not this specialism on its own.
How do I find dementia care near me?: Start from your town rather than the national list, because availability is local and an agency registered for this may not have capacity where you live. Every service here comes from the public register, and contacting one costs nothing: we take no fee and no commission.