Before choosing a residential care home or nursing home in Crawley, take a moment to explore live-in care. A dedicated, fully-trained carer lives in your loved one's home — preserving their independence, their routines, and their connection to Tilgate Park, the town centre, and Gatwick nearby. Often at a comparable cost to a Crawley care home.
Crawley, Three Bridges, Pound Hill, Maidenbower, Furnace Green, Tilgate, Ifield, West Green, Northgate, Langley Green — and across the Mid Sussex postcodes (RH10, RH11).
Crawley grew as a post-war new town, and many of the residents who arrived in the 1960s and 70s have lived here their whole adult lives. The neighbourhoods — Three Bridges, Maidenbower, Tilgate — are deeply familiar. Live-in care lets that continue.
There are around 20 registered care homes in and around Crawley — a mix of residential care homes, nursing homes, and dementia-specialist facilities. Crawley care homes serve a wide commuter belt, with fees pushed up by London proximity — making live-in care particularly cost-competitive. Weekly fees typically average £1,520 per week, with dementia-specialist or nursing-level care frequently exceeding £1,800–£2,200 per week.
Against that backdrop, live-in care has shifted from being a premium option to often being the more sensible financial choice for Crawley families — particularly for couples, where one weekly fee covers both partners.
Our carers cover Crawley and the surrounding areas — including Three Bridges, Pound Hill, Maidenbower, and out towards the Gatwick fringe. A dedicated, CQC-regulated carer moves into your loved one's home in Crawley for a continuous rotation — typically 2 to 4 weeks at a time — and provides:
Crucially, your relative keeps:
Live-in care from us starts at £1,295 per week for standard elderly support, rising to around £1,650 per week for complex dementia or nursing-level care. Compared with the £1,520/week average for Crawley care homes — and the fact that live-in care covers both partners of a couple at no extra cost — the maths increasingly favours staying at home.
Additional points Crawley families often overlook when comparing care home fees to live-in care:
Beyond the care home vs live-in care question, we help families in Crawley access the right type of care for their situation:
For urgent situations — hospital discharge in Crawley, rapid deterioration, family crisis — we can typically place a carer within 48–72 hours. For planned care, the more usual timeline is 7–10 days from first call to first day, allowing for proper carer matching and a thorough home assessment.
Care homes in Crawley typically charge around £1,520 per week for residential care, rising to £1,800–£2,200 per week for dementia-specialist or nursing care. Live-in care starts from £1,295 per week — and crucially, that fee covers a couple at no extra cost.
There are around 20 registered care homes in and around Crawley, ranging from small residential homes to purpose-built nursing and dementia care facilities. CQC ratings vary widely — we can help you interpret them honestly.
Live-in care is the most common alternative to a Crawley care home. A fully-trained, CQC-regulated carer moves into your loved one's home and provides one-to-one support 24 hours a day — preserving independence, routines and connection to Tilgate Park, the town centre, and Gatwick nearby and the wider Crawley community.
Often, yes — particularly for couples. Live-in care starts from £1,295 per week, while the average care home in Crawley costs around £1,520 per week per person. For a couple in Crawley, live-in care is dramatically more economical, as both partners are cared for under one fee.
Yes. All our carers in Crawley are trained in dementia care, and we have specialist dementia carers available for more advanced cases. The familiar home environment is often clinically better for people with dementia than the disorientation of moving into a residential care home.
Yes — our live-in care service is fully CQC-regulated, the same regulatory framework that governs care homes in Crawley. You get the same protections and standards, delivered in the home rather than a residential setting.
A free, no-obligation conversation about care homes, nursing homes and live-in care in Crawley. We'll be honest about what would work for your family — and if a care home is genuinely the right answer, we'll tell you that too.
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