Dementia Care Homes in Manchester 54 dementia care homes · 43 rated Good by CQC

Of the 115 CQC registered care homes in Manchester, 54 are registered for dementia care. Of those, 40 are rated Good, 3 Outstanding, 11 Requires improvement. 42 of the 54 were last inspected more than three years ago.

Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.

All 54 dementia care homes in Manchester

  1. Abbey Grove Residential Home Care home in Manchester · Rated Good by CQC

    CQC: good

    2-4 Abbey Grove, Manchester, Salford M30 9QN

    5.4 miles away

    Weekly fees

    £800 to £1,050 regional guide for the North West, ask the home

    Nursing on site

    No, residential

    Short stays

    Yes, respite

    CQC rated

    Dec 2019 over 6 years ago, ask what has changed

    Run by

    Coveleaf Limited

    Local authority: Salford City Council · Check what you would pay

    • Care Home

    Abbey Grove is a residential home in Salford. We support older people and younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, mental health needs, physical disabilities, and sight and hearing loss. Respite stays are part of what we do. With that range of people the only sensible approach is to build round individuals. Before anybody moves in we spend time with them and whoever they want involved, learning how they like their days to go, what they manage perfectly well themselves, where help would be welcome and what they would rather we left alone. That becomes the plan and it is theirs to change. Help with washing, dressing, mobility, medication and health appointments is given as the person has asked and recorded carefully, so it happens the same way whoever is on shift. Rooms and equipment get genuine thought, because independence often turns on whether a thing is within reach. Where there is sensory loss we attend to lighting, contrast, clear signs and hearing aids that have actually been checked. With dementia we lean on knowing somebody well, gathering their history with their family and keeping it current, so that staff respond to the person and not to the behaviour in front of them. Where somebody is managing a mental health condition we aim to be steady and clear. Our most recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission rated the home good overall, and visitors are welcome.

    • Older Person Care
    • Dementia Care
    • Mental Health
    • Physical Disability
    • Visual / Hearing Impairment
    • Younger Adults
    • Respite Care

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    Moorfield House Care Home Care home in Manchester · Rated Good by CQC

    CQC: good

    132 Liverpool Road, Manchester, Salford M44 6FF

    7.5 miles away

    Weekly fees

    £800 to £1,050 regional guide for the North West, ask the home

    Nursing on site

    No, residential

    Short stays

    Yes, respite

    CQC rated

    Oct 2019 over 7 years ago, ask what has changed

    Run by

    Namdiv Ltd

    Local authority: Salford City Council · Check what you would pay

    • Care Home

    Moorfield House Care Home is in Salford. We provide residential care for older people, including those living with dementia and people with a physical disability, and we offer respite stays. We are a residential home rather than a nursing home, so our strength is in the daily business of living well. Help with washing and dressing, getting about safely, medication, meals that people look forward to, and the company that so often disappears when someone has been struggling alone at home. Where nursing input is needed we work alongside the district nursing team and local GPs. For residents with a physical disability we focus on what can still be done rather than listing what cannot, and we make sure equipment, layout and the amount of help offered are right. Being helped too much is its own kind of loss. With dementia, we keep the day steady and the surroundings familiar, and we ask families to tell us about the person's working life, their interests and their habits. Knowing somebody was always up at five, or never drank tea, saves a lot of confusion later. Respite stays suit people recovering after illness and family carers who need a break. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. Please come and look round Moorfield House.

    • Older Person Care
    • Dementia Care
    • Physical Disability
    • Respite Care

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  3. Hollybank Care Home Nursing home in Manchester · Rated Requires improvement by CQC

    CQC: requires improvement

    211a Bolton Road, Manchester, Bury M26 3GN

    9.4 miles away

    Weekly fees

    £800 to £1,050 regional guide for the North West, ask the home

    Nursing on site

    Yes

    Short stays

    Yes, respite

    CQC rated

    Jun 2022 over 4 years ago, ask what has changed

    Run by

    S R Latimer and Dr K S Kotegaonkar

    Local authority: Bury Metropolitan Borough Council · Check what you would pay

    • Nursing Home
    • Care Home

    We are Hollybank Care Home in Bury, Manchester. We provide both nursing and residential care for older people, including those living with dementia and people with a physical disability, and we take respite stays. Offering both kinds of care under one roof has an advantage that matters more than it may sound. Somebody who comes to us needing residential support and whose health later becomes more complicated does not have to move somewhere new at exactly the point when a move is hardest. They stay where they are, with the staff and surroundings they already know, and the level of care changes around them. For residents living with dementia we build the day around the person rather than expecting them to fit our timetable, and when somebody is distressed we look for what is causing it before anything else. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is requires improvement. We are not going to talk around that. We know what the inspection found, there is an improvement plan in place, and we would far rather go through it openly with a family weighing up a placement than have them come across it some other way.

    • Older Person Care
    • Dementia Care
    • Physical Disability
    • Respite Care

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    The Chanters Care Home Care home in Manchester · Rated Good by CQC

    CQC: good

    Tyldesley Old Road, Manchester, Wigan M46 9AF

    11.5 miles away

    Weekly fees

    £800 to £1,050 regional guide for the North West, ask the home

    Nursing on site

    No, residential

    Short stays

    Yes, respite

    CQC rated

    Nov 2023 over 3 years ago, ask what has changed

    Run by

    Imperial Care Consortium Ltd

    Local authority: Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council · Check what you would pay

    • Care Home

    The Chanters Care Home is a residential home in the Wigan area. We support older people, including those living with dementia and those living with mental ill health, as well as some younger adults, and we offer respite stays. The home runs around the people in it. Residents decide when to get up, what they want to eat and how to spend the day, and we would rather somebody read the paper all morning than joined in with something to be polite. Rooms are personalised from the start with people's own furniture and pictures, because familiar surroundings make settling in much easier. Supporting people who live with dementia alongside long standing mental ill health is a real part of our work, and it is an area where people sometimes get moved from place to place. We would rather be somewhere that holds steady. Routines stay consistent, staffing is kept as settled as the rota allows, and when a person is distressed we look for the cause instead of simply calming the moment. Having younger adults living here too means we are careful that their days do not drift into a pattern designed around much older residents. Respite stays suit family carers needing a break and people recovering after illness or hospital. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. Please come and visit The Chanters and ask us whatever you need to.

    • Older Person Care
    • Dementia Care
    • Mental Health
    • Younger Adults
    • Respite Care

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What dementia care homes cost in Manchester, per week

Type of careWhat the council paysWhat self-funders are typically asked
Residential care Middle half of prices from 20 North West homes. Median £1,409.Varies by council£1,249 to £1,514
Nursing care England figure, because too few North West homes publish this price. 140 homes. Median £1,916.Varies by council£1,600 to £2,071
Residential dementia care Most relevant to this page Middle half of prices from 17 North West homes. Median £1,533.Not published separately£1,372 to £1,648
Nursing dementia care Most relevant to this page England figure, because too few North West homes publish this price. 75 homes. Median £2,050.Not published separately£1,890 to £2,221

Published prices are often starting prices, and come from homes that publish fees, so treat them as a guide. What a council pays differs from council to council. Ask the home for its own price. Powered by Orrery Intelligence.

CQC inspection dates for dementia care homes in Manchester

Inspected most recently

Longest since a CQC report

Arranging and funding a dementia care home place in Manchester

Dementia changes what counts as a good home. Decor and dining rooms matter far less than whether staff know how to sit with someone who is frightened, and whether the same faces come on shift week after week. Those are the things to test on a visit.

Checking that a home can meet the need

Every home listed is registered with the Care Quality Commission for particular categories of care, and dementia registration is the first thing to confirm. Beyond that, be specific with managers about what happens now: whether your relative walks at night, becomes distressed in the late afternoon, needs help to eat, or has ever left the house alone. A home that hesitates when you describe the reality is telling you something useful.

Reading inspection findings with dementia in mind

Four of these homes are rated Outstanding and thirty nine are rated Good, while nine are rated Requires Improvement and one is awaiting a first inspection. For dementia care, go past the overall rating to what inspectors wrote about whether the service is caring and responsive, since that is where daily life shows through. Look at when the visit happened and what specifically concerned them. Where a home has been marked down, ask what changed afterwards and expect an answer with detail in it.

What a visit should tell you

Come in the afternoon, when restlessness and tiredness tend to peak, and stay long enough to watch a difficult moment being handled. Notice whether people are approached calmly and by name, whether residents can move about safely rather than being kept in chairs, and whether the layout helps someone find the lavatory or the garden without asking. Ask what dementia training staff receive, how many carers work overnight, and how the home settles a new resident through the first difficult fortnight.

Choosing between dementia care homes in Manchester

Two assessments sit behind any funded move, one about need and one about money, and both take time that families rarely have to spare when a crisis arrives.

Requesting a care needs assessment

Anyone who appears to need care and support has a right to a free assessment, whatever their savings, and that includes people whose dementia was diagnosed only recently. Ask Manchester City Council Adult Social Care, the authority responsible for assessments and funded support here, to arrange one. A practitioner will consider memory, orientation, personal care, mobility, medication, eating and risks such as wandering or leaving appliances on, and will record what support is needed. A husband, wife or adult child providing that care can ask for a carer's assessment in their own right.

What dementia care costs and who pays

A financial assessment compares income, savings and capital with nationally set thresholds to decide whether the authority contributes towards fees. Dementia care frequently carries a higher weekly rate than general residential care, because it needs closer supervision and more staff time. Ask each home for its fee schedule in writing, establish which extras sit outside it, and ask specifically what happens to the fee when needs increase, since with dementia they usually do.

Frequently asked questions about dementia care homes in Manchester

How many dementia care homes are there in Manchester?

Manchester has 54 CQC registered care homes that are registered for dementia care, out of 115 CQC registered care homes in Manchester: 3 Outstanding, 40 Good, 11 Requires improvement. Counts come from the CQC register and are kept up to date as ratings change.

Which dementia care homes in Manchester were inspected most recently?

Auden House Residential Home (30 June 2026), Trafford Waters Care Home (23 June 2026) and Allendale Residential Home Limited (4 June 2026) have the most recent CQC reports.

Which dementia care homes in Manchester are listed on this page?

54 residential care homes appear here, each registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide accommodation with personal care for people living with dementia. Four are rated Outstanding and thirty nine are rated Good, while nine are rated Requires Improvement and one has not yet been inspected. Each entry opens into a profile giving the rating, registration categories and inspection history. Confirming that a home is registered for dementia care is the first filter worth applying.

What is the difference between a dementia care home and a dementia nursing home?

A dementia care home provides accommodation and personal care from staff trained to support people living with dementia. A dementia nursing home offers the same and also has registered nurses on site at all times for clinical needs. The homes on this page are registered for residential rather than nursing care. Where dementia is advanced and accompanied by medical needs such as complex medication or difficulty swallowing, a nursing registration is what to look for.

What should I ask when visiting a dementia care home in Manchester?

Ask what dementia training staff receive and how regularly it is refreshed. Ask how the home supports someone who becomes distressed or restless, and what is tried before any medication is considered. Find out how many carers are on duty overnight, how stable the staff team has been and how a new resident is helped to settle. Request the weekly fee in writing with everything charged separately, and ask what happens to it as needs increase.

How do I arrange a care needs assessment in Manchester?

Contact Manchester City Council and ask for an adult social care needs assessment, by telephone or through its website. The assessment is free and available to anyone who appears to need care and support, whatever their means. A practitioner will discuss memory, daily living, mobility, medication and safety at home, usually in person. Their written record sets out the support identified and becomes the basis for any funded arrangement.

Can Manchester City Council fund a dementia care home placement?

It can where a needs assessment shows residential dementia care is appropriate and a financial assessment supports it. Income, savings and capital are set against nationally fixed thresholds to determine who pays and how much. Where funding is agreed, the authority may arrange a placement itself or contribute towards fees at a home the family prefers. If that home costs more than the agreed rate, a third party may be asked to cover the shortfall.

How early should families start looking at dementia care homes?

Starting months ahead is sensible, because dementia tends to change slowly and then all at once. Assessments take time to arrange, and homes with a strong reputation for dementia care often have waiting lists. Looking early also allows your relative to take some part in the decision while they still can, which matters to many families afterwards. Even a couple of unhurried visits now will make an eventual move considerably calmer.

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Local authority support in Manchester

Manchester City Council arranges and funds adult social care in this area. Use these official council links to check funding, request an assessment and get support.

Adult social care website Manchester City Council

Council service pages 9 of 19

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Guides for choosing a dementia care home

Plain-English advice on choosing and paying for dementia care homes.

Free care planning tools

Tools to help you understand your options, check funding eligibility, and plan ahead.

  • Personalised Assistant Answer a few questions and get a tailored list of suitable care homes.
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Provider information is sourced from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), last updated September 2026.