Dementia Care Homes in Ashton-under-lyne 5 dementia care homes · 5 rated Good by CQC

Ashton-under-lyne has 5 CQC registered care homes that are registered for dementia care: 5 Good. Counts come from the CQC register and are kept up to date as ratings change.

Clarkson House Residential Care Home (8 July 2025), Sandon House (15 December 2022) and Sandon House (15 December 2022) have the most recent CQC reports.

Contact the adult social care team at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council and ask for a care needs assessment, which anyone can request for themselves or on behalf of a relative. It is free and does not depend on income, savings or any previous contact. An assessor will discuss memory, safety, mobility, medication and the help a family already provides, then record the eligible needs in writing. Ask for a carer's assessment in the same conversation if a relative is giving regular unpaid support.

It may, where the person meets the national eligibility criteria and a financial assessment shows they qualify for support. Care needs are considered first, then capital and income separately, to establish how much of the cost the council will meet. Someone with significant health needs may additionally qualify for continuing healthcare funding through the National Health Service, assessed by a different process. Where a person pays for their own care, the council can still provide advice and information.

5 residential care homes match this search, namely Sandon House, Hurst Hall, Clarkson House Residential Care Home and Daisy Nook House. All four currently hold a rating of Good. Availability changes week by week, so a home listed here may have no vacancy when you make contact. Open each profile for the registration details and the most recent Care Quality Commission report before you ring.

A care home provides personal care, meaning help with washing, dressing, eating, medication and daily routine, delivered by care staff. A nursing home additionally keeps qualified nurses on duty and can manage clinical needs such as complex wounds, feeding tubes, unstable conditions and much end of life care. All of the providers matching this search are registered as residential care homes rather than nursing homes. If a hospital or community nursing team has indicated that nursing care is needed, look at nursing provision or ask whether district nurses can visit the home.

Sooner than most families feel ready to, particularly where only a handful of homes serve the town and waiting lists build quickly. Starting early also allows the person moving to express a preference while they still can. If a crisis has already arrived, say so plainly when you telephone and ask how soon the home could assess. Keeping more than one acceptable home in view leaves you somewhere to turn when a room becomes free.

Ask how many staff on each shift hold dementia specific training and who provides that training. Ask what the home does when a resident becomes distressed late in the day, and judge whether the answer is about understanding the cause or about control. Find out how life history is recorded and how it reaches the staff working each shift. Ask as well about staff turnover and agency use, because recognition depends on seeing familiar faces.