Your guide to residential and nursing care homes including specialist learning disability, respite, EMI and dementia in Dorset. For further information click on a home in the list below or alternatively select one of the county's districts from the list on the right hand side.

Dorset borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north west, Wiltshire to the north and Hampshire to the east. The county is largely known for its coastline – the Jurassic Coast – that features land forms such as Durdle Door. Dorset’s county town is Dorchester. Other major towns include the holiday resorts of Bournemouth, Swanage, Lyme Regis, Poole and Weymouth. Dorset’s total population is about 700,000.

• Nightingales Residential Home

  Dementia, Mental health
  24 Foxholes Road, Southbourne, Bournemouth, BH6 3AT

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• Staddon Lodge

  25 Nelson Road, Branksome, Poole, BH12 1ER

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• Gillingham Grange

  Dementia
  Fernbrook Lane, Shaftesbury Road, Gillingham, SP8 4LL

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• The Elms

  Learning disability
  28 Elmsway, Southbourne, Bournemouth, BH6 3HU

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• Milton Grange

  Dementia
  9 Milton Road, Charminster, Bournemouth, BH8 8LP

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• The Old Rectory

  Dementia, Older People
  High Street, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2LL

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• Lilliput House

  Older People
  299 Sandbanks Road, Poole, BH14 8LH

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• Ludbourne Hall

  Older People
  South Street, Sherborne, DT9 3LT

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• Broadwindsor House

  Older People
  Broadwindsor, Beaminster, DT8 3PX

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• Wallfield

  Learning disability
  29 Castlemain Ave, Southbourne, Bournemouth, BH6 5EJ

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Places in Dorset with care homes

• Bournemouth care and nursing homes
• Christchurch care and nursing homes
• East Dorset care and nursing homes
• North Dorset care and nursing homes
• Poole care and nursing homes
• Purbeck care and nursing homes
• West Dorset care and nursing homes
• Weymouth & Portland care and nursing homes