How many home care services provide elderly care?

14,017 services are registered to support caring for adults over 65 yrs, which is 89% 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 elderly care mean a service specialises in it?

No. Registration sets what a service is permitted to provide, not what it does most days. 84% of these services are also registered for physical disability care, and the typical one holds 6 registrations in all. Only 96 are registered for this and nothing else. Ask an agency how many of its current clients have needs like yours.

Are elderly care services rated well?

6,483 of the 14,017 carry a published CQC rating, and 89% of those are Good or Outstanding, including 314 rated Outstanding. 705 require improvement. A rating covers the whole service, not this specialism on its own.

How do I find elderly 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.

Elderly care at home

14,017 home care services across England and Scotland are registered with the Care Quality Commission to support an older person who needs a hand at home. 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: 14,017 of the 15,668 services the CQC categorises, which is 89%. On its own it narrows almost nothing.

registered for elderly care and nothing else, out of 14,017

84%

are also registered for physical disability 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

6,483 of these 14,017 services carry a published rating, which is 46%. The rest have not been inspected since registering, which is not a mark against them.

314

Outstanding

5,456

Good

705

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 →

Elderly care by area

Other types of care

Elderly care: questions people ask

How many home care services provide elderly care?: 14,017 services are registered to support caring for adults over 65 yrs, which is 89% 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 elderly care mean a service specialises in it?: No. Registration sets what a service is permitted to provide, not what it does most days. 84% of these services are also registered for physical disability care, and the typical one holds 6 registrations in all. Only 96 are registered for this and nothing else. Ask an agency how many of its current clients have needs like yours.
Are elderly care services rated well?: 6,483 of the 14,017 carry a published CQC rating, and 89% of those are Good or Outstanding, including 314 rated Outstanding. 705 require improvement. A rating covers the whole service, not this specialism on its own.
How do I find elderly 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.