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Residential Care Homes For Older People

Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council aim to provide a safe and secure environment in which an individual’s needs are recognised and delivered in a caring, flexible and sensitive manner.

Residential care homes provide personal care, meals and accommodation to people who are no longer able to look after themselves.

Is residential care the best option?

Many people find it difficult to cope at home, either through disability or through increasing frailty with old age. If you are in this position, there are a range of possibilities which might make life manageable - long term residential or nursing home care is only one. Others include:

We are responsible for ensuring residential care is provided for older people who we have assessed as being unable to manage living at home or in sheltered housing accommodation.

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