Day care options

Day centres

Day Centres offer help and support to older people and to people with disabilities. They offer social contact and stimulating activities for people who are finding difficulty living at home. Day care also enables carers to have a break from their caring.

Most places in day centres are arranged through the Adult Services department. Centres are run by local authorities, the NHS, voluntary organisations and commercial businesses such as care homes.

Day services

Day services offer care for adults with physical and/or learning disabilities and people recovering from mental illness. Day services aim to give them the skills they need to live as independently as possible. Most are run by the Adult Services department and are for people who have been assessed as needing this kind of help.

If you wish for support from day centres or day services, please contact the Adult Services Department to request an assessment.

Other kinds of day care

Some residential care homes will take non-residents for all or part of a day so that they can join in the normal life of the home with the other residents. The Guide to Residential Care identifies which homes offer this service.