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Autumna is the UK's largest and most comprehensive later-life living & elderly care directory. Our detailed search facility and team of expert advisors can help you find the best care homes, nursing homes, retirement homes, retirement villages, home care, and live-in care services for you or your loved one's needs. Our website is free to use, we are proudly independent, and we never take referral fees. Belong Wigan is a £9 million, purpose-built village that provides accommodation and support for the elderly while allowing them to live independently as part of the wider community. Belong Wigan village is registered to provide accommodation and care and support for sixty-six adults who are in need of residential care. Services are provided in six separate households, each one able to accommodate up to eleven people.

EAC Advice is a free, specialist and independent telephone advice service provide by the charity Elderly Accommodation Counsel . We frame our offer around ‘home’ because we understand its importance for everyone. But also because planning ahead may be needed to ensure that where you live now is ‘age proofed’, and that if you wish to consider moving, you have good information and advice to help you understand all your options.
The Oaks Private Residential Home
The Home Services Directory on this website provides an opportunity to promote your services. Entries are completely free, and we’re happy to work with you to ensure your service are presented in a way you’re happy with. Our HousingCare PLUS and PREMIUM subscription services offer additional branding, links to your own site, ‘vacancy / availability ads’ and much more. Buying a ‘home for life plan’, or ‘lifetime lease’, gives you the right to live in a property until you die or move to a care home. This might enable you to live somewhere you couldn’t otherwise afford.

The Belong ‘Buy Back’ scheme also guarantees that we’ll repurchase your apartment for the same price that you originally paid, providing total peace of mind for apartment owners. It includes all 11,500 registered care homes in the UK that cater exclusively or primarily for older people. There is no charge whatsoever to appear in it, and we welcome a photo and descriptive text to enhance the presentation of your home. Just be aware that we do not provide housing or care services ourselves, so we cannot accept applications for housing and do not have any control over the services listed on our site.
What people are saying about Belong Wigan Care Village
Our encounters with everyone at Belong thus far have been great! The team has been responsive and helpful as well as incredibly nice. – the service isn't performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.

For services we haven't rated we use ticks and crosses to show whether we've asked them to take further action or taken enforcement action against them. At other times we offer an answer phone service so please leave a message and we'll call you back. "Indepentent living which is very close to support if it is needed." Our Housing Directory aims to include all housing schemes /developments in the UK that are intended for older people. Getting older can make it more difficult to get around and do the things you used to do, or would like to do. If affording work to your home is an issue, Age UK’s factsheet Home improvements and repairs is a good read, as is OneFamily’s webpage How to fund home improvements.
Visitors
A majority of homes aim to cater for both, but some target only one or the other. A care home is a residential setting where a number of older people live, usually in single rooms or hotel-style suites, because they need regular or continuous access to care. There are also 27 independent living apartments with a 24 hour emergency response system. If HOOP doesn't provide all the information you need, submit your HOOP session to us to arrange a conversation with an EAC Advisor.
Our National Housing for Older People Awards celebrate examples of successful retirement housing and housing-with-care. Most retirement developments offer either properties for sale or for rent, but newer ones may offer both tenure options, and possibly shared ownership too. The village is wheelchair accessible throughout and we have worked with the RNIB to attain the 'Visibly Better' mark. Our brochure is available in braille and large format upon request. Super friendly and polite people through email and on fix-it visits.
Carrington Court
If you simply want to move to a more suitable non-retirement home, and need help or advice with this, our EAC Advice service is here to help you. Everyone was helpful, super on top of things, and really polite! We were very well accompanied during our journey in the Bay Area. Knowing my home is loved and cared for by my residents is something that I really appreciate because I love my home and I love sharing it with somebody else….

Belong villages are modern purpose-built buildings and all rooms are spacious suites with en-suite bathrooms. There is secure access to each household with fobs for residents and staff only. There are break-out lounges and a guest suite for visitors in the main village centre. The village's six supported households, with modern en-suite bedrooms and open plan lounge and kitchen areas, represent a radically different alternative to conventional care homes. We operate with a higher-than-average staffing ratio and a maximum of 11 residents per household, offering a family atmosphere where customers can build lasting relationships with staff and other residents. Belong Wigan has six households, each with 11 spacious suites where 24 hour care is provided, including nursing care and support for people with dementia.
But there are many other organisations providing valuable services, both locally and nationally. Care homes are regulated by independent Inspectorates in each country of the UK, subject to periodic inspections and awarded quality grades. Inspectorate reports and grades are accessible from the care home pages on this website. "I like the layout of the apartments and the room sizes. I also like the security the apartments offer - me and husband feel safe here." "I have family who live in Jasmine Court. The apartment's are well kept, I feel safe when leaving them anytime of the day/night ." Belong Wigan offers 54 self-contained apartments for independent living in Jasmine and Honeysuckle Court, which are available to either purchase or rent.
The Belong, Wigan, development was built to create a community and will have a number of facilities and services contained within, effectively creating a self-contained village. The Care Quality Commission is the independent regulator of health and social care in England. It monitors and inspects services, to make sure they are safe, effective and provide high-quality care. "Belong Wigan, the town’s hugely popular village in Millers Lane, is rated 'OUTSTANDING' by the CQC and offers facilities and support plus a vibrant programme of community events. As with hotels, the cost of living in a care home varies widely according to its location, the size of your room or suite, and the facilities on offer. There is often a substantial difference between fees charged to those who can afford the costs themselves and those who receive help from their Local Authority.
We built the village centre and a three-storey care home with en-suite bathrooms within six self-contained open plan, contemporary wings with a gross floor area of approximately 3,388m2, valued at £5.01m. We have recently been able to open EAC Advice, a new 'housing options' advice service for older people. Those run by private operators more often focus on lifestyle, with help and care services discretely available to buy if or when required. Daily help, including personal care, is available on site and one or more meals are available daily in a dining room or restaurant. Additional facilities are also common – for example hairdressing salons, hobby rooms and gyms.
We reviewed the information and data available to us about Belong at Home Domiciliary Care Agency - Wigan on 8 December 2022. We have not found evidence that we need to reassess the rating at this stage. We reviewed the information and data available to us about Belong Wigan Care Village on 8 December 2022.
Residential - health and lifestyle
Housing-with-care developments run by housing associations and local authorities tend to be called ‘extra care’ or ‘independent living’ schemes, and explicitly seek to accommodate people who need daily help. Generally the whole complex will be designed with attention to accessibility for residents with restricted mobility. – the service is performing badly and we've taken enforcement action against the provider of the service. Phase 1 saw the village centre and three-storey accommodation build on land behind Sherwood House care home.