The options for funding your care
How to fund long-term care is an important consideration when looking at home care.
Depending on your personal circumstances, there may be public funding or benefits available to you, or other finance options.
Most of our customers fund their care privately or via direct payments. If you’re funding care yourself, we do recommend that you first research whether any benefits are available to you. We’ve provided lots of advice here to help you get started and point you in the right direction.
Other funding options you may want to consider include purchasing an immediate needs annuity. We also get asked many questions around lasting power of attorney and other asset-related matters.
Care funding – who qualifies?
Read more about who qualifies for care funding
Benefit entitlement
Discover which benefits you might be entitled to
Continuing healthcare (CHC)
What is NHS continuing healthcare?
Personal health budgets
Find out more about personal health budgets
Social care funding
What is social care funding and how can it be accessed?
Immediate needs annuity
Find out more about immediate needs annuity
Lasting power of attorney
What is a lasting power of attorney?
CQC regulation
Why should I opt for a CQC regulated care service?
The cost of home care
We offer two types of home care: visiting care or live-in care, each having their own pricing structure. Your care plan and quote will be personalised to your specific needs.
Visiting care costs
From £31.00 per hour
Live-in care costs
Starting from £1,675 per week
How to arrange home care
We aim to make it easy to arrange the support you want so that we can focus on what really matters: your care needs. Speak to our team today to begin your journey.
Speak to our team
Our friendly, knowledgeable team can answer your questions and talk you through your options. We are available 7 days a week.
Book a free care assessment
Your local Helping Hands care manager will visit you to understand your needs and preferences and discuss how we can help. We can visit you at home, in hospital or even a care home to carry out the care assessment.
Confirm your care package
We create a tailored care plan for you to review. Once you’ve agreed the plan, we can organise care in as little as 24 hours.
Page reviewed by Kathryn Mahon, Regional Clinical Lead, on July 25, 2024.
How we wrote this page
This page has been produced referencing key insights and data from external experts, trusted medical sources and our team of in-house specialists. We have worked hard to ensure that all information is as accurate as possible and reflects current consensus at the time of writing and reviewing.