Residential care

Residential care, or social care, provides the sort of help a caring relative would give if they were able. Residents are helped with personal care, such as bathing and dressing, or getting into and out of bed. Pilgrim Homes’ residential care is given in a family setting, with a distinctive Christian ethos. Costs vary from home to home, and residents either pay the full fees themselves or are funded by their local authority (LA). LA fees fall short of the real cost of care, and where possible families are expected to top this, as Scripture instructs. Where there is no family to help, we make good the shortfall from our charitable giving. The fees paid by residents who are able to fund the cost of their care do not in any way contribute to topping up the shortfall. Our care homes regularly receive excellent reports from the Commission for Social Care Inspection.

Residential care is available at our schemes in

Brighton
Chippenham, Wiltshire
Finborough Court, Gt Finborough, Suffolk
Shottermill House, Haslemere, Surrey
The Evington Home, Leicester
Milward House, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Framland, Wantage, Oxfordshire
Wellsborough, Nr Nuneaton, Warwickshire


Residents say: ‘You can’t get better than this.’

‘I feel we are in God’s marshalling yard, being prepared for the final journey.’

‘This is my waiting room to Glory.’

‘When I come back (after a visit to relatives) I’m always glad to be home again.’

Supporters and homes’ staff say: ‘ When an elderly person becomes older and frailer, they need more of the Lord, not less.’

‘We know that God has a great love and concern for His elderly saints.’

‘Our residents may be ailing and frail in body and mind but spiritually they are marching toward heaven with ever more purposeful steps.