Your guide to residential and nursing care homes including specialist learning disability, respite, EMI and dementia in North England. For further information click on a home in the list below or alternatively select one of the counties or major cities of the region from the list on the right hand side.

The largest single city in North England is Sunderland but the conurbation of Tyneside, which includes Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Hebburn, Jarrow and North and South Shields have a larger total population which makes up 80% of the population of Tyne and Wear.

Demographically, among the more interesting statistics for the North East include: it has the highest heart attack and lung cancer rates for men in the UK, the lowest rate for HIV infection, the the highest birth rate for women under 20 in England. It also has the highest rate of trade union membership and the largest number of practising Christians in the UK.

As of the 2001 census there were 295,106 people aged over 70 living in the North East, approximately 11.7% of the total population.

• St Thomas Residential Home

  Dementia, Mental health, Older People, Sensory impairment...
  St Thomas Residential Home, Belgrave Terrace, South Shields, NE33 2RX

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• Elderwood

  Dementia, Older People
  Westmoreland Street, Darlington, DL3 0FB

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• The Willows

  Dementia
  Woodside Resource Centre, Cavendish Road, Middlesborough, TS4 3EB

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• Bowburn Care Centre

  Dementia, Mental health, Physical disability
  Durham Road, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 5AT

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• Lambton House

  Dementia, Older People, Physical disability
  New Lambton, Fencehouses, Houghton-le-Spring, DH4 6DE

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• Braeside

  Learning disability
  Sedgeletch Road, Fence Houses, Houghton-le-Spring, DH4 5NQ

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• Prince Bishop Court

  Dementia, Learning disability, Mental health
  3 Eureka Terrace, Kimblesworth, Chester-le-Street, DH2 3PZ

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• Ware Street Resource Centre

  Alcohol dependence, Drug dependence, Learning disability, Mental health...
  5 Ware Street, Tilery Estate, Stockton-on-Tees, TS20 2BA

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• 10 Kirby Close

  Learning disability, Physical disability
  Simonside, South Shields, NE34 9QF

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• The Beeches Nursing and Residential Care Home

  Dementia, Older People
  Church Lane, Kelloe, DH6 4PT

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Places in North England with care homes

• Cleveland and Teesside care and nursing homes
• Durham care and nursing homes
• Northumberland care and nursing homes
• Tyne and Wear care and nursing homes