
I am so pleased we found the perfect place for mum and her last few years are the best they can be.Carole G(Daughter of Resident/Service User)

An absolutely wonderful care home. The staff are attentive, caring, professional and communicative.Gary K(Son of Resident/Service User)

the team always involve him in activities, treating him with dignity, warmth and understandingJackie K(Daughter-in-law of Resident/Service User)

I am so pleased we found the perfect place for mum and her last few years are the best they can be.Carole G(Daughter of Resident/Service User)

An absolutely wonderful care home. The staff are attentive, caring, professional and communicative.Gary K(Son of Resident/Service User)

the team always involve him in activities, treating him with dignity, warmth and understandingJackie K(Daughter-in-law of Resident/Service User)

Lauriston offers residential, nursing and dementia care for 60 residents. Every detail of the home is created to enhance the independence and dignity of residents and to foster a community of friendship.
The care home is a purpose-built home, with en suite bedrooms. Situated in Leonards on Sea, less than a mile from Hastings town centre and the coast, it has easy access to local amenities and shops.
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Care Provided by Lauriston
Primary Care Categories
- Older Person Care
- Dementia
- Physical Disability
- Younger Adults
Length of Stay
- Permanent Care
- Respite Care
Care Types Provided
- Residential Care
- Nursing Care
- Dementia Residential Care
- For a maximum of 60 Service Users
Dementia Care TypesMild Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "mild dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Memory problems such as misplacing items and not be able to recall recent events (however, in some forms of dementia a person's memory may be unchanged)
- Difficulties thinking through problems and planning, making decisions
- Language and communication issues such as finding it difficult to recall the appropriate word in a conversation or following a conversation
- Poor orientation, getting lost in areas previously familiar to them
- Difficulty judging distances (more falls than usual)
- Changes in their normal mood including anxiety and depression
- In certain types of dementia, personality and behaviour changes may be present alongside or instead of issues with memory or concentration.
Moderate Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "moderate dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Worsened memory problems. Not always recognising own family members and friends. Repeating the same questions over and over again
- Worsened language and communication issues, forgetting what they are saying mid-sentence. Not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- More frequent confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Advanced Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "severe dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Severe memory problems. Not recognising family members and friends. Not being able to recall their own name
- Severe language and communication issues, not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- Severe confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Verbally or physically aggressive behaviour
If your loved one displays this type of behaviour you may need a care home that has specially trained staff. Verbal/physical aggression is often defined:
- Consistent shouting and screaming
- Verbal abuse
- Physical abuse
How we define Dementia Care Types
Mild Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "mild dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Memory problems such as misplacing items and not be able to recall recent events (however, in some forms of dementia a person's memory may be unchanged)
- Difficulties thinking through problems and planning, making decisions
- Language and communication issues such as finding it difficult to recall the appropriate word in a conversation or following a conversation
- Poor orientation, getting lost in areas previously familiar to them
- Difficulty judging distances (more falls than usual)
- Changes in their normal mood including anxiety and depression
- In certain types of dementia, personality and behaviour changes may be present alongside or instead of issues with memory or concentration.
Moderate Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "moderate dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Worsened memory problems. Not always recognising own family members and friends. Repeating the same questions over and over again
- Worsened language and communication issues, forgetting what they are saying mid-sentence. Not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- More frequent confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Advanced Dementia
Someone living with our definition of "severe dementia" might experience some or all of the following:
- Severe memory problems. Not recognising family members and friends. Not being able to recall their own name
- Severe language and communication issues, not being able to understand what someone else is saying
- Severe confusion, e.g. about the time of day or where they are, including their own home
- Apathy, depression and anxiety
- Believing things that aren't true (paranoia)
- Frequent hallucinations
- Lack of emotional control, quick to anger, fearfulness, sadness
- Loss of inhibition
- Difficulties sleeping or waking during the night and behaving as though it is daytime - loss of circadian rhythm.
Verbally or physically aggressive behaviour
If your loved one displays this type of behaviour you may need a care home that has specially trained staff. Verbal/physical aggression is often defined:
- Consistent shouting and screaming
- Verbal abuse
- Physical abuse
How we define Dementia Care Types
- Mild Dementia
- Moderate Dementia
Other Care Provided
- Parkinson's Disease
- Stroke
- Palliative / End of Life Care
- COPD/Pulmonary Disease
- Convalescent Care
Facilities
- Smoking not permitted
- Close to Local shops
- Near Public Transport
- Lift
- Wheelchair Access
- Gardens
- Residents Kitchenette
- Phone Point in own room
- Television point in own room
- Residents Internet Access
Funding & Fees
Weekly Charges per Person
Please see our Key Facts document on our website for inclusions and exclusions
The price(s) shown are provided by the care home. Contact Lauriston for full pricing details and T&Cs.
Contact Lauriston to confirm what's included and get a personalised quote:
Funding Types Accepted
- Self-Funding (Private)
- Local Authority with Top-up
- Local Authority
- NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
Support you may be entitled to
- If you chose a care home based in England, you may be eligible for NHS Funded Nursing Care (FNC), which helps cover the cost of nursing. This is worth £267.68 per week and is usually paid directly to the care home.
Good to Know
Group / Owner
- MHA
- Voluntary / Not for Profit Owned
Person in charge
- Dionne McEwan (Home Manager)
Local Authority / Social Services
Admission Information
- Ages 55+
Care Home Design/Build
- Purpose Built: Yes
- Last Refurbishment: 2021
- Number of floors: 2
Room Information
- Single Rooms (60)
- Single Rooms with ensuite Wet Room (60)
Parking
- On-site car parking for visitors and staff
Lauriston Reviews (109)
Lauriston has a Review Score of 9.9 (9.945) out of 10, based on 43 reviews in the last 2 years.
Over all time Lauriston has 109 reviews.
Good home for my mother.
Thank you so much for your positive comments and I am glad that your mother is happy at Lauriston.
Very happy with the standard of care. The staff are always cheerful and helpful. Obviously quite expensive here and slightly worried about what will happen when Mum's money runs out!
Thank you for your positive feedback. Lauriston is home to all residents who require care for all their needs. We support both local and private funded; we ensure that residents who are at Lauriston have a place they call home. Please do come and speak to me if you are concerned about finances or anything else.
My aunt has recently been moved to a newly refurbished room and all her photos have been put on the walls.
The dining area is quite noisy which my aunt finds uncomfortable (noise from laminate flooring and no fabric to 'baffle' the sound). Her lovely hand-knitted cardigans cannot withstand the washing regime but otherwise, it is a lovely care home.
Thank you for your kind words and positive feedback. Lauriston is currently being refurbished; due to the dining room needing to be laminate to ensure infection control is maintained and areas are clean from potential spillages. We do ensure that residents have music on for background noise to...
Personal care for my dad from permanent staff is very good. He feels quite comfortable when they have to clean him up. He doesn't like being attended by temporary care staff who do not know him or his needs. It makes him feel anxious. Non-continuity of nursing care staff makes it difficult for the family to communicate on visits. Trick - put everything in writing - concerns/instructions - so absolutely no ambiguity.
Thank you for your feedback. Within the last month, we have reduced our agency staffing by 80%. When we need to book, we make sure that we book the same staff to ensure continuity for all residents. I am more than to happy to meet with you personally should you wish to discuss your father's care.
Happy atmosphere. My sister is happy here and the staff are supportive and friendly.
Thank you so much for your positive feedback; we strive to ensure that all residents feel supported and happy within a friendly homely atmosphere.
Home is warm and pleasant, staff seem approachable.
Thank you for your positive feedback. It is very exciting to read how approachable staff are and the warmth of home.
The staff take good care of my nan and everyone is very friendly. Sometimes there are buzzers and beeps which are quite loud but not for long. Overall a very good experience.
Thank you for your positive feedback. I am happy to hear that the call bells are not heard ringing for long, unfortunately, they do have to be a certain level so that all staff can hear residents calling for assistance, ensuring that all their care needs are met.
I visit my mother here once a week and I am very grateful to all the staff who make it a pleasant experience.
Thank you for your positive feedback; it is greatly appreciated.
The Lauriston on entry is light, bright, clean and welcoming, this carried on through to the inner safety of where the residents are. All the staff are wonderful and our mum is very happy there.
I always find the staff friendly and welcoming and enjoy my occasional visits. This time, my friend obviously had had a fall and she complained of a sore head - otherwise, she was OK. I am unable to comment on management, activities or safety/security.
Thank you for your positive feedback. I will ensure that the information will be passed back to the staff. We do follow falls protocol and ensure that residents are pain-free and will often ask residents if they experience any pain and provide pain relief with their consent.
Cleaners work very hard to keep the home clean and smelling fresh.
Thank you for your positive feedback; I will ensure that staff are aware.
Sadly my dad's dementia continues to blight his latter years in so many horrifying and debilitating ways. However, I am so so grateful to the Lauriston community for the care and dignity they strive to provide him - very often against all the odds! He's extremely challenging. After a painful and prolonged spell in hospital, when he became almost completely debilitated, they gently nurtured him back to a form of capacity where he was able to smile again. Infections, falls, increasing dementia etc continue to challenge but, Lauriston will always, always do their absolute best.
Thank you for your positive feedback and comments; I will ensure the staff are aware of these.
Granny seems relaxed here, the staff are helpful. It is always clean and there are lots of activities.
Thank you for your positive feedback; I will ensure to pass this onto the staff team.
Excellent staff, not so keen on some agency staff at weekends, would be better with more permanent staff on as they get to know the residents better. Food is getting better. Entertainment good. Visiting is very arrangeable as I am now a volunteer and come almost every day. Cleaning staff excellent.
Thank you for your positive review and vital comments. We are looking into ongoing recruitment to reduce our agency usage. When we are required to use an agency, we ensure the staff are consistent and work to high standards.
Very good and very helpful staff. Nothing is too much trouble for them and they do it with a smile.
Thank you for your positive feedback; I will ensure to pass this onto the staff team.
There are few criticisms but I could mention two:
1. Laundry arrangements need tighter control so that a labelled garment is washed, ironed and returned to its owner.
2. Not all rooms can be bright and attractive but some are quite gloomy.
We are continuing to work through our laundry arrangements and to seek good labels for relatives or residents to purchase to ensure clothing does not go missing. We will be having a complete refurbishment within the next month and residents can choose a feature colour within MHA colours.
A pleasant and friendly home with Christian values and principles (important to many residents). Although there is no place like home, our friend is happy in the atmosphere. I think regular visitors by relatives/friends should be told the entrance key code. To ring the bell each time must be tedious to staff and is too much like Fort Knox. It should be shared on a strictly confidential basis.
Thank you for your positive comments and feedback. With regards to health and safety within our home, we enable residents and relatives to access the code when leaving the home. Residents are entitled to the code for entering however we cannot release the code to relatives or other people on entering due to risks and security within the home.
Mum has been with Lauriston for over 6 months now. Her care has been very good, but I would particularly like to mention what a wonderful Christmas and New Year they did for the residents. Food, presents, presentation were all excellent.
She was treated with respect by all the staff who did their best to provide for all her needs in the last years of her life.
Dad was admitted to Lauriston six months before he passed away. Needless to say, none of us wanted him to go into care. However, I can honestly say it was a lovely six months for him. The home is bright and airy and all the staff are excellent be they domestic staff, kitchen, carers nurses, admin and manager. They treated Dad like they would wish for their own parents to be treated. As a relative, we were also treated exceptionally well. Tea and cake were always offered at our visits. During the last few days of dads life, they could not have offered more support, An excellent home.
Regulatory Rating
Care Quality Commission (CQC) Rating
Date: 17 November 2022Good
- CaringGood
- EffectiveGood
- ResponsiveGood
- SafeGood
- Well-ledRequires improvement
Inspection ratings
We rate most services according to how safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led they are, using four levels:
- Outstanding - The service is performing exceptionally well.
- Good - The service is performing well and meeting our expectations.
- Requires Improvement - The service isn't performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.
- Inadequate - The service is performing badly and we've taken action against the person or organisation that runs it.
- Not rated - we have not yet rated this area of the service, this is normally because the assessments we have carried out have been focused on other key questions.
Bed Vacancies
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News (6) & Events (0)
- 15 May 2026
Lauriston care home is marking the arrival of Care Home Open Week 2026 with an ABBA/disco themed Open Day on Saturday 20th June from 12-4pm. Everyone is welcome! Care Home...
- 03 Oct 2025
Stay 3 weeks for the price of 2 At Lauriston, we provide short-term respite stays designed to give carers a much-needed break while ensuring loved ones receive professional, compassionate care...
- 30 Jan 2025
There’s nothing like MHA at Christmas. Our care homes, retirement living schemes, and communities are filled with tinsel, Christmas trees, and lights - a burst of light in the gloom...
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Meet the Team (5)

Lauriston's dedicated team is led by Home Manager Dionne McEwan who brings over 35 years of health and care expertise, including nursing and midwifery, and holds a post graduate diploma in Dementia studies, IOSH Level 2 Managing Safely and NVQ Diploma Level 4 in Health and Social Care.
Dionne joined MHA in May 2019 and moved to Lauriston in 2022. Since becoming Home Manager, Lauriston has seen its carehome.co.uk review rating rise to 10/10 and it won the Top 20 Care Home in the South East Award in 2024.

Activities Co-ordinator Emma joined the Lauriston family in May 2019. She has over 10 years experience in care with a NVQ Diploma Level 2 in Health and Social Care. She loves engaging with residents, whether it's running quizzes or Love to Move seated gymnastics classes for people living with dementia, or taking them out on trips to Hastings Old Town or even London.
When not at Lauriston, Emma enjoys spending time with her family including her twin girls and Dottie the French bulldog.

Our Maintenance Worker and Gardener Steve joined Lauriston in December 2019 and is instrumental to the smooth running of our home. A former vessel planner, telecoms engineer and legal assistant, Steve clearly enjoys variety in his work and no two days at Lauriston are ever the same! His hobbies include fishing, upcycling and being with his family and three cats.

Karina, one of Lauriston's senior care assistants, has dedicated over 40 years to the care sector since leaving school. She holds a NVQ Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care and has been part of MHA since 2019, joining Lauriston in 2022. She especially enjoys taking residents on trips to the seaside and the theatre for pantomimes, creating cherished memories with them. Outside of work, Karina is an avid reader who loves spending time with her family including her granddaughter.

Nathan, a senior care assistant at Lauriston, has over 20 years of experience in the care sector, including a previous role as a home manager. He holds a NVQ Level 5 Diploma in Health & Social Care and is currently being sponsored by MHA to train as an Assistant Practitioner. Outside of work, Nathan enjoys travelling and is a huge pet lover. His busy and noisy household consists of three dogs, four cats and two rabbits!
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