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.

• Ashbourne Lodge

  Dementia, Older People
  The Green, Billingham, TS23 1EW

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• Pretoria Court Complex Care Home

  Older People, Physical disability
  Pretoria Court, Corbridge Road Medomsley, Medomsley, Consett, DH8 6QY

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• Waterloo Residential Home

  Dementia, Older People
  103 Waterloo Road, Blyth, NE24 1BY

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• Eighton Lodge Residential Care Home

  Dementia, Physical disability
  Low Eighton, Gateshead, NE9 7UB

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• Defoe Court Care Home

  Dementia, Physical disability
  Defoe Crescent, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, DL5 4JP

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• The Poplars Nursing Home

  Older People, Physical disability
  375 Thornaby Road, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 8QN

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• Highfield Care Home

  Older People, Physical disability
  Highfield Care Centre, The Meadowings, Yarm, TS15 9XH

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• Whorlton Grange Residential Home

  Dementia, Older People
  Whorlton Grange Cottages (opp Golf Club House), Westerhope, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE5 1ND

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• Lea Green Court Care Home

  Dementia, Older People
  Kenton Road, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE3 3UW

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• Redfern

  Learning disability
  6 Saint Vincent Terrace, Redcar, Stockton-on-Tees, TS10 1QL

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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