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Best Live-in Care Companies in the UK

Living at home independentlyย  is the goal for the vast majority of older people. But should care needs increase live-in care offers a way to continue to remain at home. Providing 24 hour home care support can include help with taking medication, preparing meals, personal care, as well as providing companionship. You can also find live-in carers with specialist training for conditions such as Dementia, Parkinsonโ€™s, stroke or cancer care.

This Age Space guide to the best live-in care companies in the UK includes two types of business: Live-in Care Providers and Live-in Care Agencies.ย 

Live-in Care Providers:

Live-in Care Agencies:

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Trinity Homecare

Live-in Care: Provider

Trinity Homecare are a live-in care provider that has been recognised as one of the top 3% of home care providers in the UK by the CQC. Offering a level of care that is safe and well-led, they are able to arrange care in as little as 48 hours. Trinity Homecare’s personalised approach allows their qualified assessors to carry out a detailed assessment of your relativeโ€™s care needs to create a bespoke care plan.

Using Trinityโ€™s unique CareMatch Program, they will ensure your relative is partnered with a caregiver that they can live happily and harmoniously with. With their innovative technology, you will also have access to your loved one’s care notes, wherever you are.

All of the TrinityCarers receive comprehensive and specialist training. Trinity Homecareโ€™s live-in home care services are available across all of mainland England.

Live-in care from ยฃ1,300 per week

CQC Rating: Outstanding

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The Good Care Group

Live-in Care: Provider

The Good Care Group has been providingย award winning 24/7 live-in care and hourly care in London keeping clients safe and happy in the comfort of their own homes while improving their overall health and well-being.
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They strive to understand the conditions their clients live with and deliver highly personalised, one-to-one care that reflects individual needs, choice and social preferences.
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The Good Care Group has been rated โ€˜Outstandingโ€™ by The Care Quality Commission in all 5 key measures – safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. They are rated Excellent (6) for the Quality of Care and Support and Very Good (5) for their Quality of Staffing by the Care Inspectorate in Scotland.
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The Good Care Group’s multidisciplinary team leads their delivery of complex care through their specialist service, they are experts in dementia care, parkinsons, stroke, MS and palliative care along with companionship and respite services.

Live-in care from ยฃ1,395 per week

CQC Rating: Outstanding

Hometouch

Live-in Care: Provider

Hometouch are trusted by more than 1,000 families, delivering over 50,000 hours of care each month. They are also rated 4.9 / 5 stars on Trustpilot. Their carers are fully trained, all with specialist dementia training. ย 

They are one of the few providers able to offer both Introductory and Regulated/Fully managed live-in care. This means that if your care needs increase from Introductory care, you can seamlessly switch to their regulated/fully managed care, retaining your original carer and account manager without having to move to a different provider and start over.

To start, contact Hometouch to book a free consultation where you have a forum to ask any questions you have and Hometouch can help determine the level and type of care you require. From there they will present some carer profiles, matched to both your loved oneโ€™s needs and likes / dislikes. Once youโ€™ve picked one you like you can meet them on a video call before making a final decision.ย 

Click the link below to start or call 0203 9189724 to speak to one of their friendly advisors.

Live-in care from ยฃ995 per week

CQC Rating: Good

Curam

Live-in Care: Agency

Curam Care strives to make the process of finding and hiring a carer as simple, safe, seamless and as stress-free as possible.

Choice is the order of the day. All Curamย carersย have been interviewed and fully vetted by their team โ€“ with qualifications verified, DBS checked and have the right to work in the UK.ย 

Curamย enables you to choose the care that you need,ย whether it be live-in care, hourly care, overnight or respite care.ย 

You can message carersย directly or advertise your roleย and carersย who fit your requirements will contact you. ย 

Prices are set by the carerย you choose. Average hourly rate is around ยฃ18 and the averageย rate forย live-in care is around ยฃ1,069 a week.ย 

CQC Rating: Not applicable

Country Cousins

Live-in Care: Agency

Operating since 1959, Country Cousins is the longest established introductory live-in care agency in the UK. Their dedicated team of Customer Service Representatives will work closely with you and your relative to determine their care needs and interests. They will then introduce you to a perfect live-in with the right care experience, training and personality for your loved one.

Country Cousinsโ€™ live-in carers pride themselves on being effective homemakers as well as caregivers; meaning they will help with everyday household tasks, preparing nutritious meals, caring for pets, and looking for ways to improve your relativeโ€™s all-round wellbeing.

Live-in care from ยฃ882 per week

CQC Rating: Not applicable for Agencies

Hamilton George Care

Live-in Care: Provider

Hamilton George Care are a live-in care provider, who offer bespoke, in-home care to private clients across the UK. Fully regulated by the CQC, this ensures that you and your family always have the highest levels of support and continuity of care. They can provide;

  • Companionship – support with housekeeping and tasks around the home from a trusted friend

  • Care – varying levels of clinical and personal care as well as assistance with everyday tasks

  • Complex Care – bespoke care including nursing care, and advanced moving and handling, as well as End Of Life and rare conditions

  • Recovery or Respite care – short term support (four weeks or longer)

Their specialist carers are hand-picked, carefully paired and then interviewed by each client. Every carer undertakes ongoing training from their in-house nurse and also completes their CQC approved โ€˜Hamilton George Training Schoolโ€™, which includes both clinical and bespoke household modules.

Hamilton George Care believes that care should be life enhancing, not life limiting.

Live-in care from ยฃ1,570 per week

CQC Rating: Good

Edyn Care

Live-in Care: Provider

Edyn Care is a dedicated live-in care provider that can provide 24-hour in-home carers for elderly people living in England. When you apply for live-in care from Edyn, one of their care managers will come to visit you and your relative at home and discuss your relativeโ€™s needs in order to put together a personalised care plan.ย 

Edyn Care uses bespoke technology to keep you updated on your relativeโ€™s care, including information about how they are sleeping, eating, and feeling. Their app also allows you to keep afloat of how much money you have spent on care.

Live-in care from ยฃ950 per week

CQC Rating: Good

Helping Hands

Live-in Care: Provider

Helping Hands is a family owned live-in care provider with over 140 branches across England and Wales. For over 30 years, Helping Handsโ€™ carers have been providing one-to-one support where people want it most โ€” in their own home.ย 

Since 1989, Helping Hands have been offering adults of all ages the extra comfort and reassurance of 24-hour one-to-one support. Their award-winning training ensures that all of their live-in-carers are equipped with the best set of skills to support you and your family. As well as round-the-clock live-in care, Helping Hands also offers a visiting/domiciliary care service that is provided by their network of local branches.

Helping Handsโ€™ individual branches receive their own CQC ratings, which you can find on the Helping Hands website.

Live-in care from ยฃ1,460 per week

CQC Rating: Good

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Corinium Care

Live-in Care: Provider

Corinium Care is an award-winning care provider that specialises in delivering live-in care for elderly people. Corinium Careโ€™s live-in carers are carefully vetted, and go through a comprehensive and award-winning training scheme before being assigned to clients.

Senior members of the Corinium team will meet with you and your relative to carry out a detailed assessment of your relativeโ€™s needs and how they can meet them.

CQC Rating: Good

Lifted

Live-in Care: Provider

Lifted are an award-winning live-in care provider who are dedicated to improving familiesโ€™ experiences of home care. Combining a person-centred approach with their state-of-the-art care technology, Lifted offer an elevated, reliable and personalised live-in care experience.

You will benefit from their outstanding Lifted Care app. The Lifted Care app offers peace of mind โ€” at the fingertips โ€” for you and your family through updates on your loved oneโ€™s activities, mood, health and wellbeing.

Your relative will be offered a care assessment by Lifted in order to map out a personalised plan for their live-in care. Lifted will then carefully select one of their trained and vetted carers that they think will be a good fit for your relative, to ensure an uplifting care experience.

Live-in care from ยฃ1,100 per week

CQC Rating: Good

Home Instead

Live-in Care: Provider

Home Instead is one of the UKโ€™s leading in-home care providers and their team of highly-trained ‘CAREgivers’ will involve you and your relative in the process of hand-picking the right carer for your relative.ย 

Home Instead runs a City and Guilds-accredited dementia training programme for their ‘CAREgivers’, meaning they are a good choice for families looking for 24 hour in-home dementia care.

You can find the CQC rating of your local Home Instead branch online.

CQC Rating: Not applicable for Franchises

Right at Home UK

Live-in Care: Provider

Right at Home UK is one of the UKโ€™s biggest live-in care providers. They can provide you with a trained and qualified caregiver who will deliver 24-hour support to your relative. The team from Right at Home UK will work alongside you, and other professionals involved in your relativeโ€™s care, to devise a bespoke and tailored plan of care to be delivered in your relativeโ€™s home.ย 

Right at Home UK keep comprehensive daily records of their clientsโ€™ care, available for you to access in their home. Carers can always be reached by telephone if you need to discuss any matters with them.

Each Right at Home UK local branch has its own CQC rating. You can find the CQC rating of your local branch by entering your postcode on their website.

CQC Rating: Not applicable for Franchises

Cera Care

Live-in Care: Provider

Cera Care is a new nationwide live-in care provider using the latest technologies to provide an up to date in-home care service. They use information about your relativeโ€™s needs and interests to match them with a carer who has shared interests, relevant experience and training to provide the care that your relative need.

Cera Care operate a simple app that allows the caregivers to share up-to-date information about your relativeโ€™s wellbeing.ย ย 

Each Cera Care local branch has its own CQC rating.

CQC Rating: Not applicable for Franchises

Eximius Support

Live-in Care: Provider

Established in 2016, Eximius Support is a provider of specialist elder live-in care for residents with complex or complicated care needs due to health conditions. Eximius Support has a comprehensive recruitment and training process to ensure that their carers can provide the highest standard of care.

Their recording and monitoring systems are operated from a tablet in the clientโ€™s home and therefore easy for you to be remotely kept in-the-loop about your relative’s care. Eximius Support use an app that allows key information about the individualsโ€™ wellbeing to be shared between the live-in caregivers, family, and other professionals involved in their care.

CQC Rating: Outstanding

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Search over 11,000 local care providers across England to find the perfect one that matches your requirements.

Please note: The ordering of live-in care companies on this page is not intended to suggest that any one agency or provider is better than another. Whichever live-in care provider or agency is best for you is a personal choice according to the service they offer and your relativeโ€™s needs. To enable Age Space to continue to be a free resource, some links on this page may enable Age Space to earn a commission if a user buys live-in care.

Find flexible, well-paid care opportunities with Curam, where carers earn on average ยฃ15+ per hour. It is free to sign up and can be done quickly by following the link below. Curam will take care of your insurance and training.ย 

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