Dorset care homes and Dorset nursing homes

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.

  • Dorset Learning Disability Service - 3 Cranford Av

    Physical disability

    3 Cranford Avenue, Weymouth, DT4 7TN

  • The Mellowes Nursing Home

    Older People

    Common Mead Lane, Gillingham, SP8 4RE

  • Garden House

    Older People

    Garden House Rest Home, Sherborne, DT9 4HN

  • Fair Haven

    Dementia, Older People, Physical disability

    23 Knyverton Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3QQ

  • Portelet House Care Home

    Dementia, Mental health, Older People

    22 Grand Avenue, Southbourne, Bournemouth, BH6 3SY

  • Wessex Lodge Retirement Home

    Dementia, Older People

    16 Munster Road, Lower Parkstone, Poole, BH14 9PU

  • Retired Nurses National Home

    Older People, Physical disability

    Riverside Avenue, Bournemouth, BH7 7EE

  • Greenbushes Nursing Home

    Dementia, Older People

    10-12 Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 2EN

  • Larks Leas

    Dementia, Physical disability

    Milldown Road, Blandford, DT11 7DE

  • Foxes Moon Residential Home

    Dementia

    40 Ringwood Road, St Ives, Ringwood, BH24 2NY