Our care
We assess each placement individually.
Most care homes have a fixed menu. They take a certain kind of resident with a certain kind of need, and decline anything outside that. Within reason, we don't work like that.
Family-run, two homes, no corporate template — we've built our approach around looking at each person, each situation, and asking "can we make this work safely?" The answer is often yes when other homes have said no.
The kinds of placements we've taken on
Hospital transitions where another home wouldn't take them back
Sometimes a resident has a hospital admission and their existing care home decides not to accept them back — needs have changed, risks feel different. Families are then trying to find a new home during a discharge window. We've stepped into many of these situations.
Discharges where home is no longer an option
Convalescence and short-term respite for residents who've come out of hospital but aren't yet safe to live independently — and sometimes can't return home at all. We can take placements of a few weeks to permanent, depending on how things evolve.
Couples with very different care needs
One of you needs significant support; the other doesn't, but wants to stay together. Rare for care homes to accommodate this well. We've supported several couples this way — one resident on a full care plan, the other living alongside them in the same home.
Residents other homes have declined
Combinations of continence, mobility, and complexity that have led families to be told "no home will take her." Sometimes those assessments are right and we'd say the same. Sometimes they're not — and we've welcomed residents into our homes who'd been turned away elsewhere.
Respite that became permanent
A mother placed for respite while the family takes a planned holiday. By the time the family returns, circumstances have shifted — sometimes the resident is happier and more settled with us than they were at home, sometimes home is no longer sustainable. We make permanent transitions easy when the time comes.
How we say yes
Personal assessment, every time.
For every placement we're seriously considering, our care manager visits the resident — at home, in hospital, or at their current care setting. We meet the family. We talk to whoever's been providing care so far. We look at the medical context.
Then we make an honest decision. Sometimes the answer is "yes, we can make this work, here's how." Sometimes it's "we'd love to but we don't think we can do this safely — here's a setting we'd suggest instead." Both answers are honest, and families tell us they prefer that to a confident yes that fails three months in.
Where we have to say no
The "case-by-case" approach has limits. Where a resident's needs require ongoing nursing care from registered nurses on shift, we'd refer to a nursing home — that's not what we are. Where complexity requires secure facilities or one-to-one staffing ratios beyond what we provide, the same.
But within the residential and dementia care space, the honest answer is: please ask. The worst that can happen is we have a conversation, and you find out either way.
The next step
The best way to know is to visit.
We invite families to come in person — see Auditcare, meet the team, ask anything. Visits take about an hour. Tea and biscuits provided. No pressure.
Book a visit to Auditcare
Prefer to talk first? Call 01865 739223
(Mon-Fri 9-5).
Or email enquiries@auditcare.com.