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UK CARE FEES · REAL COSTS

The brochure smiles.
The bill does not.

Real UK care home and home-care fees, shared anonymously. The one price nobody will tell you until you enquire. See what families actually pay, per week, area by area.

CAREUK · 2024
Respite care stay£2,500
TOTAL PAID£2,500
“was £2500 a week then” · a real bill, shared publicly · source
£1,000+ a week
A residential care home place routinely costs four figures a week, and nursing or dementia care costs more. source
Self-funders pay more
People who fund their own care are often charged far more than the council pays for the same room in the same home. source
No price on the website
Almost no care home publishes its fees online. You only find out when you enquire, at the worst possible time. source

What Britain actually pays

Every number below is a real price: a published price, or a bill someone actually paid. Click through for the full spread.

ProcedurePricesList vs paid spreadListPaidDelta
Dementia care14£1,582£1,343–£1,767£1,050£960–£2,000−£532
Home care (hourly)14£30£24–£32£23£13–£26−£7
Live-in care9£1,603£1,210–£2,125£1,150£800–£2,000−£453
Nursing care14£1,400£930–£1,759£1,650£900–£2,200+£251
Residential care15£1,205£806–£1,548£1,000£650–£1,500−£205
Respite care11£1,481£1,377–£1,600£2,000£1,100–£2,500+£519

Two bars per type of care: the pale bar is the advertised list price spread, purple is what people actually paid, on one shared scale (£13 to £2,500, logarithmic). Delta is the gap between the two medians. Hover for the numbers.

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