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.

• Kendal Bank Care

  Older People
  Quarr, Gillingham, SP8 5PB

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• Acorn Lodge - Bournemouth

  Learning disability
  12 Grand Avenue, Southbourne, Bournemouth, BH6 3SY

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• Larkins

  Alcohol dependence, Drug dependence
  14 Campbell Road, Bournemouth, BH1 4EP

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• The Pines Residential Home

  Learning disability
  39 Porchester Road, Charminster, Bournemouth, BH8 8JU

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• Foxes Moon Residential Home

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

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• Ivers

  Learning disability
  Hains Lane, Marnhull, DT10 1JU

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• Winterbourne Steepleton - Steepleton Manor Care Ho

  Dementia, Older People
  Winterbourne Steepleton, Dorchester, DT2 9LG

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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