Information about sheltered housing, retirement housing and extra care housing; residential care homes and nursing homes; and all forms of elderly care in the UK

Providing advice on elderly care, including specialist directories and information on nursing homes and residential care homes, as well as sheltered housing, extra care housing, assisted living, close care housing and retirement villages, across the UK. Also providing over 2,000 new sales, resales and lettings vacancies every week, as well as all care groups and housing managers.

This site will help you explore options and make decisions about meeting your housing, support and care needs in later life. It contains detailed information on how to maintain, adapt or improve your home or release equity from it, find care or home help services, find and move to retirement housing or choose a care home where you will feel at home.

It also specialises in all forms of 'housing-with-care' including extra care housing, assisted living and retirement villages.

The site is run by the charity Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC), and backed up by our telephone Advice Line.

Where to start on elderly care?

• Thinking of moving home? Our retirement housing search is the most comprehensive available; use it to locate exactly what you want anywhere in the UK. Our Care Options directory includes all UK homes that provide care for elderly people.
• Looking for help to adapt or repair your home? Use our directory of Home Improvement Agencies to find out about these non-profit services, and locate your nearest one.
• Do you need answers to elderly care problems? Our housing appraisal tool provides suggestions for dealing with many of them. Or search our library of over 1,000 selected information sheets and guides.

Elderly Accommodation Counsel news

EAC Quality of Information Mark (QI Mark)
A record 51 schemes have been awarded the EAC QI Mark during the last week, including 20 managed by Milton Keynes Council, 3 by Hanover Housing, 4 by ECHG, 5 by Servite Housing Association and 19 by Worcester Community Housing. The EAC Quality of Information Mark aims to encourage housing providers to present detailed and accurate information on this website about their specialist housing provision. In all, 1,946 schemes have now received the award.

EAC blog
Read the new EAC blog, containing posts from a range of authors discussing issues related to the housing and care sector. Visit the blog.

EAC In Focus November 2008
Download our latest newsletter with news on the success of the QI Mark, the launch of FirstStop Advice, and more.

EAC Over 60s Art Awards 2008
Re-live this year's Art Awards on the EAC Over 60s Art Awards website. New additions include a video and photo collection of the exhibition, plus a gallery of all the exhibited works.