Housing options
Housing choices
In this section you can find information about different types of accommodation.
Sometimes people decide to move to a care home when they are in a crisis and cannot work out how to get the help they need to stay at home. Often people can keep living at home with the right support.
Before considering moving into a care home, the Council recommends you talk with them first. This will help make sure that all other options that could help you to remain living independently at home, or in other suitable accommodation, have been exhausted.
If this is no longer possible, moving to a good quality care home may be the best option.
Information and advice in this section
- Choosing a care home
- Retirement and sheltered housing
- Extra care housing
- Housing support and benefits
- Nursing and residential homes
- Deferred payments
You can also find information that might help you on the Somerset County Council website.