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.

  • The Crescent

    Older People, Physical disability, Sensory impairment

    29 Meyrick Park Crescent, Bournemouth, BH3 7AG

  • Castle Dene

    Dementia, Older People

    Throop Road, Bournemouth, BH8 0DB

  • Wordsworth House Care Home

    Dementia

    Belle Vue Road, Swanage, BH19 2HR

  • Fairlawn

    Dementia, Physical disability

    St Marys Road, Ferndown, BH22 9HB

  • Avon Lee Lodge

    Older People

    Preston Lane, Burton, Christchurch, BH23 7JU

  • Castle Hill House

    Dementia, Older People

    Bimport, Shatesbury, Dorset, SP7 8AX

  • Ludbourne Hall

    Older People

    South Street, Sherborne, DT9 3LT

  • Highfield Manor Care Home

    Dementia

    44 Branksome Wood, Bournemouh, Dorset, BH4 9LA

  • Douglas Jackman House

    Learning disability

    1-3 Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 1QR

  • Hillcrest House

    Learning disability

    Church Hill, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2LR