Live-in careColerainePortrush
Live-in care in Portrush
Compare live-in carers for Portrush and read client reviews. Typical advertised rate in our area sample: £1,099 a week, including our fee.
16 priced profiles sampled across the wider region around Coleraine
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Live-in carer profiles near Portrush
£1,099 a week
typical week around Coleraine, our fee included
£157
a day
Rosemary B.Based in unknown · 30 miles from Portrush · 33 years experience£195a day
Skhululekile M.30 miles from Portrush · 1 year experience£150a day
Ashilla Susan M.Based in unknown · 37 miles from Portrush · 4 years experience£150a day
Rates, reviews and distances are from carers' own profiles. A couple pays about £1,350 a week for one carer.
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The live-in carers based closest to Portrush
Closest first, with the rate each has set. Every one has passed our checks: an accepted criminal-record check (Enhanced DBS issued within the last 2 years, DBS Update Service, Scottish PVG or Access NI), identity, right to work, and an online interview.
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See live-in carers for PortrushWhat families say
What clients say about carers near Portrush
Reviews of the reviewed carers based nearest Portrush, nearest first. They describe previous clients’ experiences, not necessarily care delivered in Portrush. Each links to the carer’s profile.
“My mother benefited from a level of assistance, support, care & love it would be difficult to find elsewhere & for which I am extremely grateful.”
Jeremy K., 2020
About Precious K.Live-in carer based in Edinburgh · 2 reviews“Thanks to Tracy, Dad was always immaculately dressed and clean, his meals were all home cooked and nutritionally well balanced and his home was always kept really clean and tidy.”
Jackie S., 2025
About Tracy O.Live-in carer based in PrestonReviews come from families who booked through PrimeCarers, or are references carers have added from past clients. We check reviews before they appear and never edit them, but we do not verify references. Read more client reviews.
What it costs
What live-in care costs in Portrush, against the alternatives
A typical live-in week is £1,099 around Coleraine, with our fee included, and the middle half of advertised rates run from £1,050 to £1,202. Here is where that sits against a care home.
- Live-in care in Colerainetypical advertised week£1,099
- A couple, one live-in carerabout a fifth more than for one£1,350
- Care home, England averageone resident, before extras£1,160
- Nursing home, England averageone resident, before extras£1,410
- A couple in a care hometwo fees£2,320
Care home figures are averages for England; too few homes in Coleraine publish a fee for a local median. Fees vary widely between homes. At home you keep paying the household bills and the carer's food, so add those before you compare.
For a couple the gap is wide: one live-in carer for both of you is about £1,350 a week, and a care home charges two fees.
Past about 35 hours a week of visits, live-in care costs about the same and somebody is there all day.
The full figures, an estimator and what changes the priceLevel of need, couples, nights, days the family covers, and what to agree before the carer arrives.
The cost of live-in care in ColerainePortrush in numbers
Live-in care in Portrush: the local picture
The nearest is based about 30 miles away. Portrush is in Coleraine.
A live-in carer moves into the home in Portrush and is there day and night: personal care, meals, medicines prompted at the right times, company, and someone in the house overnight. On PrimeCarers you choose the carer yourself from the profiles of those who can reach Portrush, agree the rate on their profile, and we set up the contract and the weekly payments. Families arrange it after an operation or a hospital stay, for dementia, for a couple, or when visits are no longer enough. How live-in care works goes through it step by step.
From carers' own profiles, October 2026. Distances are straight-line, from the centre of Portrush to where each carer says they live. Counts are the live-in carers with a photo and a live-in rate that our area searches return, at most 100 per area, so busy areas have more. Rates include our fee and are advertised day rates multiplied by seven; typical means the median. Availability for your dates needs confirming with each carer.
How to arrange it
From this page to a live-in carer in Portrush
Four steps, and the first two cost nothing. You choose the carer; we handle the checks, the contract and the payments.
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FreeThe results show carers offering live-in care who can reach Portrush, with their rate, experience and reviews. - 2
Talk to two or three
This weekMessage them with a short description of a typical day, then decide on a video call or a visit. - 3
Agree the rate and a start date
A few daysThe rate on the profile is the price. The contract, weekly invoicing and payment are set up on PrimeCarers. - 4
The carer moves in
Week 1Most live-in carers work stints of two to six weeks, so agree early who covers their breaks.
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Lee-Ann
Account manager for families in Portrush
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Lee-Ann helps families in Portrush arrange live-in care
Most families start with a call: what your relative needs, what it would cost, whether a live-in carer is the right answer or hourly visits would do, and what to ask a carer when you speak to them. Lee-Ann has those conversations every day and can tell you which of the carers in Portrush might suit, though the choice is always yours.
Help paying
Help with the cost of live-in care in Portrush
In Northern Ireland the local Health and Social Care Trust carries out the assessment and can arrange or fund care at home. Ask the Trust for a community care assessment. The live-in care funding guide goes through each route.
Depending on needs, Attendance Allowance and Health-funded support can help too, and so can pensions, savings and the value in a home.
Around Portrush
Live-in care around Portrush
Live-in carers travel to their placements, so the figures on this page apply to the towns around Portrush as much as to Portrush itself. These are the nearest places with their own live-in page, and the area guides behind this one.
Live-in care in the towns around Portrush
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- Live-in care in Portstewart3 miles
- Live-in care in Bushmills5 miles
More about live-in care in Coleraine
Local guides explain costs, funding and choosing a carer
Questions
Questions families in Portrush ask about live-in care
A typical week is £1,099 around Coleraine, with our fee included: about £157 a day. The middle half of advertised rates fall between £1,050 and £1,202 a week. Complex care, such as advanced dementia or hoisting, starts from about £1,260. The cost of live-in care in Coleraine has an estimator.
Live-in carers move in for the placement, so the search shows everyone who could come to Portrush, not only those nearby. A profile does not confirm availability: check dates and travel with each carer.
For one person they are close. A typical live-in week is £1,099, and the average care home in England charges £1,160 a week, or £1,410 with nursing. At home you also pay the household bills and the carer's food. For a couple, one live-in carer costs about £1,350 a week for both, while a care home charges two fees. The care home comparison has a calculator.
In Northern Ireland the local Health and Social Care Trust carries out the assessment and can arrange or fund care at home. Ask the Trust for a community care assessment. The live-in care funding guide explains the local route. Check which council covers your home postcode if you live near a boundary.
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