DEFINITIONS
Types of Care Home
Residential Home / Care homes only - These homes are residential, which means people live in them either short or long term. They provide: accommodation meals personal care (such as help with washing and eating).
Nursing Home / Care homes with nursing - These homes are the same as Care homes only, but they also have registered nurses who can provide care for more complex health needs.
Ownership Status
Private – care homes commercially run and typically are owned by individuals, partnerships, limited companies and commercial care home groups
Voluntary – care homes run for non-profit, and typically are owned charities, associations, societies, trusts etc..
Local Authority – care homes owned and run by the Local Authority (or part sub division of the local authority). If the care home is run by the local authority but owned privately, we should use the local authority details
National Health Service - care homes owned by Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), NHS Trusts or Care Trusts.
Types of Care
The Types of Care are based on the Registered Types of Care of the Regulatory Authorities in England Scotland and Wales. They include:
Alcohol Dependence – care homes that specialise in caring for people with alcohol dependence.
Alzeimer’s / Dementia – care homes that care for people with dementia and alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common type of ‘dementia’.
Drug Dependence - care homes that specialise in caring for people with drug dependence.
Learning Disability – care homes that care for people with learning disabilities such as autism, challenging behaviour and asperger syndrome.
Mental Health (excluding Alzeimer's/Dementia & Learning Disability) - care homes that specialise in caring for people with mental health problems, such as Korsakoffs Psychosis/Syndrome, bipolar, severe depression and personality disorder.
No Medical Intervention – care homes that do not intervene medically (eg for religous reasons)
Physical Disability - care homes that care for people with physical disabilities caused by diseases and conditions such as from aids/HIV, cancer, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, huntington's disease, motor neurone disease, multiple scelorisis, neuropathic, orthopedic, parkinson's disease, strokes.
Sensory Impairment - care homes that specialise in caring for people with hearing, speech and visual impairment.
